Nycholas
.
wyssyam
.
NOw
welcome
good
brother
from
parties
of
beyonde
the
see
.
Wee
haue
sore
longyd
for
your
safe
retorne
/
hopynge
to
here
some
newes
from
oure
euangelyke
brotherne
of
Germany
,
and
in
what
maner
the
gospell
dothe
prosper
there
&
go
forwarde
.
W.
Syr
I
thanke
you
for
your
welcomynge
.
Howbeyt
concernyng
your
desyre
,
to
be
certefyed
of
them
whom
ye
call
euangelyke
brothern
:
I
assure
you
vnfaynyngly
that
I
lyke
theyr
maner
euery
day
worse
&
worse
.
N.
What
haue
ye
so
sodenly
changed
your
minde
,
and
begynne
now
to
fall
from
the
gospell
forsakyng
goddys
worde
?
☞
W.
Truly
I
haue
chaunged
my
mynde
from
errours
and
wrong
oppynyons
/
but
neuer
entendyng
to
renye
goddys
worde
or
Crystes
gospell
:
wherof
as
farre
as
I
cāperceyue
they
be
destitute
and
mych
wyde
.
N.
To
proue
that
it
were
impossible
/
seyng
ye
cannot
denye
but
that
they
haue
Crystes
gospell
in
theyr
vulgare
speche
iprēted
fre
for
euery
body
to
loke
vppon
/
wyth
contynuall
exercyse
of
euangelyk
preachyng
of
goddys
worde
.
☞
W.
In
very
dede
they
haue
the
exteriour
letter
,
with
some
outwarde
apparaunce
of
zele
towarde
it
.
But
for
all
that
as
towchyng
an
euangelyke
lyfe
or
a
crysten
conuersacyon
,
with
faythfull
frutys
behouable
to
the
same
:
they
be
neuer
a
deale
nerer
in
effecte
than
were
the
Iewes
,
whyche
wolde
haue
made
Cryste
theyr
kynge
/
not
for
any
syncere
loue
that
they
had
to
folow
him
in
vertuous
lyuyng
▪
or
for
reuerence
of
hys
godly
worde
/
but
onely
in
that
they
thought
he
wold
haue
satis●●ed
theyr
carnall
appetitys
&
sedycious
affeccyons
:
wherof
to
be
auctour
he
was
afterward
wrongfully
suspect
/
euen
as
we
see
now
adays
hys
gospell
euyll
spoken
vppon
thorow
the
slaunderouse
behaueoure
&
wykked
demeanoure
of
them
,
whom
in
contempt
of
good
people
ye
call
euangelyke
&
crysten
brothern
/
auauncing
them
selfys
to
be
onely
the
trewe
folowers
&
obseruers
of
Crystes
gospell
/
where
as
theyr
liuing
manyfestely
repugneth
.
So
that
after
my
iudgemente
the
chefe
captayns
of
them
may
be
lykened
to
Theudas
&
Iudas
:
〈◊〉
.
5
whych
vnder
a
colour
of
Mess●as
comyng
the
very
sauiour
and
redemer
from
all
bondage
/
whose
o●yce
wrongfully
vsurpyng
by
false
promyses
of
lybert●●
/
peruerted
much
people
of
the
Iewes
for
to
folow
them
,
to
theyr
vtter
vndoyng
and
fynall
destruccyon
.
N.
These
sedycyouse
persons
to
applye
vnto
Martyn
Luther
and
his
folowers
/
is
bothe
agaynste
the
trothe
&
witnes
of
your
owne
conscience
yf
ye
duely
examyne
yt
.
For
it
is
playne
that
thys
Theudas
&
Iudas
,
of
a
presumptyous
affeccyon
and
vii
quyetnes
of
mynde
/
wythoute
auctoryte
of
goddys
worde
or
preferrement
of
hys
honoure
,
sedycyously
moued
the
people
to
folow
them
&
not
god
:
where
as
Martyn
Luther
with
such
other
euangelyke
prechers
,
auaunce
not
presumptuousely
them selfes
but
god
onely
/
norther
perswade
the
people
to
folowe
them
but
Criste
:
whose
gospell
longe
season
obscured
by
mennys
tradycyons
,
they
labour
to
bryng
vnto
lyght
/
&
to
restore
the
captyued
conseyencys
of
ignorante
folke
vnto
the
fredome
of
goddes
word
/
whereof
myche
people
nowe
a
dayes
are
nolesse
desyrous
than
the
Iewes
were
of
theyr
delyueraunce
of
bodely
captyuyte
.
☞
W.
To
answere
you
in
thys
poynt
,
I
dout
nothing
but
thys
Teudas
and
Iudas
pretendyd
to
the
peple
(
whom
they
fynally
dysceuyd
)
the
auctoryte
of
god
/
and
that
they
were
specyally
sent
of
him
for
theyr
deliueraunce
/
shewing
some
coloured
apparence
vnto
the
same
:
Lyke
as
Martyn
Luther
in
the
begynnyng
pretended
a
meruelouse
zele
&
tender
affeccion
towarde
the
blynde
ignoraunce
of
people
for
to
reduce
theym
vnto
the
clerenes
of
knowlege
/
shewyng
such
a
serue●●
spyryt
,
that
he
was
iugged
to
be
syngulerly
chosen
of
god
nowe
in
these
latter
days
,
for
a
dew
reformacion
of
the
hole
worlde
.
But
consyder
to
what
open
myschefe
hys
secrete
malygnyte
brast
forthe
at
last
/
and
how
many
thousandys
by
occasyon
of
hys
doctrine
haue
peryshed
&
dayly
peryshe
bothe
in
body
and
sowle
:
whereof
to
haue
a
forther
declaracyon
yf
ye
wyll
here
me
wyth
pacyence
/
I
shall
so
describe
vnto
you
the
fassyon
of
hym
and
of
hys
adherentys
,
that
ye
may
euydently
know
that
they
ar
no
dyscyples
of
Cryste
but
of
Antycryste
,
no
trewe
doctours
but
fals
dysceyuers
no
apostles
but
apostatas
and
patrons
of
peruersyte
.
N.
Now
I
beseche
you
them
to
procede
on
youre
purpose
,
declaryng
it
at
length
:
and
I
shall
gladly
gyue
you
the
herynge
without
interrupcyon
/
trustig
verely
that
all
parcyalyte
set
a
parte
,
ye
wyll
shewe
the
very
trothe
accordynge
as
ye
haue
perfitely
known
by
experyence
.
And
thus
doyng
ye
may
setle
many
mennis
hartis
at
rest
in
this
troublous
season
/
so
sore
encombred
wyth
contencyons
and
sondry
oppynyons
of
lerned
men
/
that
they
can
not
tell
what
party
they
maye
beste
lene
vnto
.
☞
W.
Syr
furst
of
all
I
protest
here
,
that
I
entende
to
speake
no
forther
than
I
haue
perceyued
among
them
my selfe
/
or
els
perfytely
e●formed
by
credable
persons
,
of
whose
certifycaciō
I
ought
to
haue
no
mystrust
.
wherfore
for
to
go
vnto
my
purpose
,
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
this
Martyne
Luther
cheefe
captayn
of
new
heretykes
,
&
bringer
forth
of
old
heresies
/
was
a
frere
augustyne
in
the
cite
of
wyttenberge
,
vnder
the
dominion
of
Frederyke
duke
of
Saxony
.
which
duke
opteyned
a
perdon
from
Rome
for
the
bylding
of
a
certayne
college
there
within
his
own
pallace
,
wherof
Martyn
Luther
was
a
great
setter
forwarde
/
vntyll
the
tyme
that
thyder
came
a
Iubelye
from
the
pope
,
dysanullyng
the
dukes
perdon
among
other
for
a
season
:
wherwith
Martyn
Luther
not
a
lytle
offended
,
endeuoured
hym selfe
to
preche
agaynst
it
.
And
sone
after
he
putt
forthe
in
prynt
a
treatyse
De
indulgentiis
,
inueyng
agaynst
the
graunt
of
pardons
:
how
be
it
so
closely
,
that
he
was
supposed
not
to
haue
condemned
the
auctoryte
but
onely
the
abuse
/
whych
to
say
the
trothe
was
to
farre
owt
of
frame
in
the
prouynce
.
And
also
he
tooke
in
hand
to
preche
the
playn
textes
of
scrypture
/
dysclosynge
the
blyndenes
of
the
worlde
&
detectyng
the
fautys
of
all
estates
bothe
hyghe
&
lowe
,
spyrytuall
and
temporall
/
vnder
suche
moderacyon
that
he
was
taken
for
a
prophete
of
god
amonge
them
/
&
grewe
in
estymacyon
of
the
peple
dayly
more
and
more
.
Not
wythstandynge
he
pretendyd
to
take
no
parte
wyth
any
secte
other
faccyon
of
heretikes
,
as
wicklyf
,
Hus
,
Berengarius
,
&
suche
other
whom
he
vtterly
condemnyd
/
dyssalowing
the
Boemes
because
they
seꝑatyd
thē selffys
frome
the
churche
of
Rome
/
constantly
affermyng
the
pope
to
be
Crystys
vycarye
.
Thus
he
playd
the
woolfe
in
a
lambys
skynne
a
while
secretly
/
tyl
his
frutes
gaue
euydence
&
openly
bewraid
what
he
was
in
effect
For
shortely
after
he
alteryd
his
mynde
&
reuokyd
that
he
had
spoken
before
/
wyssheng
all
his
bookys
that
were
empryntyd
to
be
burnyd
&
vtterly
destroyd
.
Then
begane
he
stowtly
to
fortefy
his
feyned
fayth
voyde
of
good
workys
/
perswadyng
lybertye
and
assuraunce
of
saluacyon
/
to
the
defacynge
of
charytable
dedes
and
suppressyon
of
the
drede
of
god
.
Then
preched
he
pleasante
thyngys
to
hys
audyence
/
,
howe
no
man
was
bownde
to
confesse
hym
vnto
a
prest
●other
to
obserue
the
prescryppcyon
of
prelates
abowt
fastyngys
&
●excepciō
of
meete
and
drynke
and
that
no
person
nedyd
to
payne
him self
with
workes
of
satysfaccyon
whyles
Cryste
had
payed
ynowgh
for
vs
all
Also
how
cōstytucyōes
of
Popes
&
bysshoppys
bynde
vs
nothynge
.
Then
all
hys
sermones
were
agaynste
the
cleargye
/
callynge
the
Pope
Antychryste
,
&
hys
folowers
dyscyples
of
Sathans
synagoge
/
in
whose
defyance
he
made
a
booke
intytled
/
de
●●ptuntate
Babisonica
,
full
of
conuycyous
furyes
and
ragynge
blasphemy
agaynst
the
blyssed
sacramentes
/
preferrynge
hys
owne
iugement
aboue
the
holy
doctoures
of
the
churche
.
And
where
as
he
had
wytnessyde
before
/
that
wicklyfe
,
Hus
,
Be
rengarius
,
&
suche
other
were
heretikes
:
than
he
sayde
that
they
were
godly
men
and
saintes
callynge
theyr
condempners
Antecrystes
and
lymmes
of
the
deuyll
.
Furthermore
to
bryng
kynges
pryncyes
&
temporall
gouernours
in
contempte
of
their
subgettes
:
he
spared
nother
by
prechyng
ne
techynge
to
rayle
agaynst
them
/
somtyme
preuely
where
he
durst
not
discouer
hys
malyce
for
feare
of
dyspleasure
/
and
somtyme
apertely
there
as
he
thought
hym selfe
in
no
daunger
of
them
on
whom
he
rayled
:
as
wytnesse
the
letters
of
conspyracye
whyche
he
craftely
forged
to
destroye
the
duke
George
of
Saxonye
.
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CRXN
TILL
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Also
the
outragyous
treatyse
that
he
wrote
agaynst
the
kynges
hyghenes
both
in
latyn
&
duch
/
so
shameles
and
sedycyously
,
that
it
is
not
onely
condemned
of
good
men
/
but
also
abhorred
of
hys
owne
adherentes
.
yet
all
thys
whyle
he
for
bare
the
comons
&
vplandysh
people
/
and
encouraged
them
to
note
other
mennes
vyces
rather
than
to
amend
theyr
own
fawtes
/
alleggyng
often
tymes
vnto
them
,
tyrany
of
prynces
,
oppressyon
of
the
clergye
,
wyth
other
manyfold
myseries
and
wretched
calamyties
,
whyche
he
sayde
they
were
wrongfully
compelled
to●
suffer
.
whereby
wythin
smalle
processe
of
tyme
they
toke
such
a
stomake
/
that
●he
drede
of
god
and
man
sett
a
syde
,
they
arose
vppe
wyth
open
sedycyone
in
dyuers
pattyes
of
Germanye
aboue
the
nombere
of
an
hundred
thousande
persons
/
in
suche
a
furious
fasshyon
,
that
euery
man
all
moste
stoode
in
feare
of
his
lyfe
.
wherfore
M.
Luther
perceyuynge
no
small
ieoperdye
toward
him
through
theyr
insurreccyon
/
because
the
occasyon
of
yt
was
layde
to
his
charge
as
yt
was
in
dede
:
immediatly
to
shyft
hym selfe
from
suspicion
and
daungerous
displeasure
of
the
prynces
&
great
men
/
he
wrote
hastely
a
boke
voyde
of
all
Christen
charyte
and
naturall
compassion
,
against
the
sayde
comones
or
vplandyshe
people
/
so
extremely
that
it
wold
abhorre
an
hethen
harte
to
here
or
rede
yt
/
enforcynge
euery
man
wythoute
any
respecte
of
pyte
,
to
kyll
and
slee
theym
as
houndes
:
of
whom
were
myserably
slayne
in
one
place
and
a nother
,
aboue
.iii.
score
thou
sande
persones
/
ye
resydue
beyng
now
a
lyfe
in
farre
greater
mysery
&
calamyte
than
euer
they
were
afore
.
After
thys
fell
a
dissencyon
betwene
M.
Luther
and
Carolstadius
aboute
the
sacramente
of
the
altare
.
For
Carolstadius
denyeth
in
it
the
bodely
presence
of
Christe
/
affyrmynge
that
when
he
spack
thes
wordes
:
Hoc
est
corpus
meum
,
he
meant
them
of
his
owne
corporall
bodye
and
not
of
the
sacrament
:
where
as
M.
Luther
holdeth
the
contrarye
/
allbeyt
he
beganne
to
fall
from
yt
as
his
owne
wrytynge
testifieth
,
had
he
not
ben
●uētyd
by
this
Carolstadius
/
whom
the
wycked
arrogauncy
of
his
stomake
could
not
suffer
to
be
auctour
of
so
hye
an
heresie
,
wherof
he
couetyd
hym selfe
to
haue
ben
father
.
This
variaunce
endurynge
betwyxe
them
:
dyuers
forsoke
M.
Luther
&
leanyd
to
Carolstadius
syde
/
&
many
malicious
letters
fraudulently
forged
were
conueyde
frome
the
one
to
the
other
wyth
calumnyous
prechynges
/
ye
&
when
they
met
to gether
,
more
redy
wyth
fystes
than
wyth
pacyent
argumentes
to
trye
theyr
cause
had
they
not
bene
sonderyd
.
Not
wythstange
through
fauour
of
the
duke
and
other
valyaunte
frendes
/
M.
Luther
so
●uayled
agaynste
hym
that
he
was
excomunycate
:
&
beynge
a
man
of
auncyent
age
,
an
old
preste
newly
maried
,
and
some
tyme
archedeaken
of
/
was
fayne
to
leue
hys
younge
wyfe
and
auoyde
the
domynyon
of
Saxony
.
After
the
he
had
wandred
thourough
dyuers
cities
and
townes
swadynge
hys
opynyon
wyth
odious
reporte
/
to
the
mynysshyng
of
M.
Luthers
fame
:
at
laste
he
can
to
Scyrich
in
Swytzerlande
/
where
he
founde
one
accordynge
to
hys
execrable
appetyte
,
named
Swynglyus
,
whych
was
there
an
excedyng
setter
forth
of
M.
Luthers
doctrine
.
To
whom
as
sone
as
he
had
disclosed
his
detcstable
heresye
agaynst
the
blessed
sacrament
,
he
gladly
accepted
him
/
and
in
denyenge
the
corporall
presence
of
Cryst
,
agreed
both
in
one
/
sauynge
in
this
poynte
they
dyffered
:
where
as
Carol
stadius
sayd
that
our
saueour
Christe
spekyng
thes
wordes
:
hoc
est
corpus
meum
,
meaned
his
corporall
presence
there
syttynge
with
his
dysciples
at
the
table
&
not
in
forme
of
brede
:
Swinglius
affyrmed
that
they
were
not
to
be
vnderstandyd
lytterally
,
but
by
a
figure
of
interpretacyon
/
so
that
est
was
taken
for
significat
:
and
thes
wordes
of
Chryste
,
this
is
my
bodye
/
were
as
myche
to
saye
,
as
this
sygnyfyeth
my
body
.
Of
thys
mater
he
wrot
sondry
epistles
to
dyuers
of
his
familyar
frendes
,
gloryously
reioycynge
that
he
had
founde
oute
the
longe
vnknowen
trothe
of
so
hygh
a
mysterye
:
not
by
the
occasyon
of
Carolstadius
(
as
he
bosted
)
but
through
his
own
dilygent
redynge
of
scripture
,
and
specyally
of
saynt
Augustyns
workes
/
who
in
very
dede
ys
clene
contrary
to
his
horryble
heresye
.
Neuertheles
many
of
M.
Luthers
adherentes
assentyd
vnto
hym
/
amonge
whom
the
chefe
was
Oecolampadius
:
whych
beynge
a
seculer
preste
of
.xl.
yeres
of
age
,
entred
the
religyon
of
saynt
Brydgyttes
order
in
the
prouince
of
Bauarye
/
and
for
heresyes
that
he
hadde
vttred
both
by
prechynge
and
wrytyng
,
standyng
in
daunger
of
the
Dukes
attachiament
/
he
ranne
awaye
pryuely
wyth
a
nonne
of
the
place
/
whom
sone
after
he
forsoke
,
and
gathym
for
refuge
to
a
Lutheran
prince
named
Fraunces
de
Sychken
,
a
noble
personage
by
byrthe
,
but
a
cruell
tyraunte
of
behaueour
,
a
great
murtherer
,
a
comune
spoyler
of
marchaunts
and
a
rouere
of
hygh
wayes
/
whiche
mayntenyd
hym
and
one
Hutten
a
knyghte
of
the
new
gospell
,
gyuen
holly
to
mischefe
/
till
at
the
lest
for
feare
of
displeasure
of
other
princes
he
was
dryuen
to
put
than
awaye
.
Oecolampadius
cam
then
to
Basyle
/
&
there
he
founde
many
fauourers
of
M.
Luthers
faccyon
:
by
whose
ayde
he
was
promotyd
to
be
curate
of
a
paryshe
chyrche
.
where
he
handled
hys
matters
wyth
such
clokyd
hypocrisye
,
that
he
wān●
many
mennes
hartes
/
craftely
so
wenge
sedicious
disturbaūs
betwy●e
the
temporalte
&
the
spiritualtye
/
in
such
wyse
that
the
hole
cite
was
often
tymes
in
parell
of
insurreccyon
and
in
daunger
to
be
destroyed
.
But
though
he
approuyd
the
oppynyon
o●
Swynglius
with
preferrement
aboue
Carolstadius
:
yet
conceyued
he
another
pryuate
vnderstandyng
/
sayenge
that
Ho●
est
corpus
meum
,
o●ght
thus
to
be
interpreted
:
this
is
a
fygure
or
a
representacyon
of
my
body
/
allegynge
Tertul●●ane
,
Chrisostome
&
saynt
Austen
for
hys
authorite
,
whom
he
vnderstandyth
a
mysse
and
recyteth
falsly
/
somtyme
addyng
more
to
theyr
wordes
,
somtyme
takynge
awaye
from
theyr
sentencyes
.
In
this
space
Martyn
Luther
wrote
a
conuycyous
boke
agaynst
Carolstadius
/
and
he
an
answere
to
the
same
of
lyke
spyryte
and
semblable
charyte
/
so
that
Swinglius
and
his
company
whyles
other
men
wondred
at
theyr
madnes
,
laughed
them
bothe
to
scorne
.
Earolstadius
perceyuynge
that
he
was
not
so
hyghly
estemyd
as
he
reckened
to
haue
bene
/
also
longynge
very
sore
for
the
companye
of
hys
yonge
wyfe
:
at
laste
he
made
meanes
to
be
reconcyled
agayn
to
Martyn
Luther
and
hys
churche
,
whiche
was
grauntyd
hym
vpon
condycyon
that
he
shulde
reuoke
his
opynyon
of
the
sacrament
/
wherto
he
agreed
albeit
he
helde
not
longe
to
wche
with
them
.
But
as
sone
as
he
had
recoueryd
his
wyfe
again
,
he
gat
him
owt
of
the
way
in
to
a
vilage
&
there
kept
a
comune
tauerne
/
besely
vttryng
his
olde
heresyes
,
and
daylye
contryuynge
newe
.
Thus
in
Germany
moch
vnquyetnesse
encreasyd
and
trouble
out
of
measure
/
with
intollerable
varyaunce
bytwene
seculer
people
and
the
clergye
:
many
dyffamous
lybellys
&
slaunderous
wrytynges
euery
where
dysperpled
abrode
.
And
where
as
was
but
one
faccion
before
,
onely
of
the
Lutheranes
:
than
sprang
there
vp
another
/
which
be
callyd
Oecolampadianes
or
Swynglyanes
/
owte
of
whom
yssued
also
the
thyrde
faccyon
namyd
Anabaptystes
,
conteyning
aboue
.xl.
sectes
of
dyuers
heresyes
and
sondery
opynyons
N.
In
good
fayth
ye
tell
here
a
shrewde
tale
by
theym
.
And
yf
it
be
trewe
as
ye
reherse
I
lyke
their
maners
a
grete
deale
worse
than
I
dyd
.
But
specially
I
merueyle
that
they
be
deuyded
in
to
so
many
faccyons
&
sondery
sectes
seynge
they
pretende
to
professe
the
onely
doctryne
of
Cryste
,
whiche
noryssheth
no
suche
contencyous
dyuersyte
:
for
he
is
the
god
of
peace
&
not
of
dyssencion
☞
W.
I
ensure
yow
ther
be
in
Germany
.iii.
C.
sectes
aboue
the
nomber
that
I
haue
namyd
,
of
whose
varyable
opynyons
I
cowlde
partely
make
rehersall
yf
I
had
conuenyent
oportunyte
.
N.
Now
I
praye
yow
for
the
satysfyenge
of
my
conscyence
and
of
dyuers
other
whyche
perauenture
haue
ben
dyscceyued
and
brought
to
errours
,
by
the
fayned
report
of
them
,
whiche
wolde
dylate
theyr
heresyes
vndernethe
the
conlour
of
vertuous
lyuynge
,
boldely
affyrmyng
in
reproche
of
our
catholike
byleue
that
among
them
is
perfyte
peace
,
concord
,
true
loue
&
charyte
,
freely
admynystred
to
euery
one
in
necessyte
withoute
respect
of
persons
.
But
fyrste
I
wolde
that
ye
declared
somwhat
of
the
.iii.
princypall
faccyons
.
☞
W.
The
fyrste
as
I
haue
shewed
you
are
callyd
Lutheranes
,
bycause
they
folowe
Luthers
doctryne
.
The
seconde
lyke
wyse
are
callyd
Oecolampadyanes
or
Swynglyanes
/
&
are
as
one
with
the
Lutheranes
in
raylynge
agaynst
the
cleargye
,
&
in
contempnyng
the
authoryte
of
the
chyrche
,
but
in
the
sacrament
of
the
aultar
they
be
gretely
repugnaunt
:
and
so
farre
at
varyaunce
/
that
they
haue
made
large
volumes
full
of
owtragious
furies
one
against
another
/
in
such
vncharytable
maner
that
it
excedith
the
blasphemous
contencyons
of
all
heretykes
and
infideles
that
euer
were
before
our
dayes
.
ye
theyr
hatefull
enemyte
is
so
malycyous
,
that
yf
any
of
the
Oecolampadyanes
resorte
amonge
the
Lutheranes
:
they
shal
be
excōmunycatyd
as
hethen
persones
,
and
fynde
very
small
charyte
,
whiche
they
call
loue
after
the
newe
interpretacyon
.
And
in
lyke
maner
the
Lutheranes
shall
fynde
as
lytle
fauour
amonge
the
Oecolampadyanes
.
The
thyrde
faccyon
be
callyd
Anabaptistes
,
because
they
are
twyes
chrystened
/
&
wyll
admytte
●one
as
theyr
faythfull
brotheren
except
they
be
rebaptyzed
agayne
.
They
suffre
not
theyr
chyldren
to
be
chrystened
vntyll
they
be
of
greate
age
/
and
haue
many
straunge
opynyons
.
They
affyrme
that
it
is
impossyble
for
kynges
,
prynces
,
iustices
,
and
other
gouernours
of
the
comon
weale
,
to
be
chrysten
men
.
They
obstynatly
hold
that
yt
is
vnlawfull
for
a
iudge
to
requyre
any
othe
of
a
crysten
man
.
They
saye
that
chrysten
men
ought
to
make
no
prouysyon
nor
resistence
agayns
theyr
enemies
but
frely
suffre
them
to
do
theyr
wyll
.
Also
they
shew
holye
perfeccion
outwardly
/
obseruing
vigyles
,
fastynges
,
wyth
contynuall
redynge
of
scrypture
,
redye
to
helpe
theyr
nedy
brotheren
,
vsyng
theyr
goodes
in
comoue
.
And
they
disprayse
mych
the
lyuyng
of
the
Lutheranes
&
Oecolampadyans
/
sayenge
as
I
haue
hard
them
my self
reporte
,
that
they
be
wors
than
the
clergye
/
whom
they
call
Papistes
,
for
because
they
haue
the
gospell
in
theyr
mouthes
and
frame
theyr
lyues
no
thynge
thereafter
/
shewynge
none
amendment
of
theyr
lewd
conuersacyon
,
but
contynue
styll
in
vycyous
excessys
after
the
comone
rate
of
mysbeleuers
.
And
therefore
they
be
in
greuous
hatred
and
suffre
moche
persecucyon
of
the
other
/
as
excommunycacyon
,
exyle
,
enprysonement
,
&
oftentymes
cruell
execucyon
of
death
:
in
so
moche
that
it
is
enacted
throwgh
out
Suytzerland
among
the
Oecolampadyaes
,
and
in
dyuers
other
places
/
that
who
so
euer
is
found
of
the
Anabaptystes
faccyon
/
he
shall
be
throwen
quycke
in
to
the
water
&
there
drownyd
.
N.
I
se
well
than
sayenge
and
doeng
are
not
all
one
.
For
I
am
enformed
that
Martyn
Luther
hath
wryten
extremely
agaynst
the
persecucyon
of
prelates
/
affyrmynge
yt
to
be
agaynst
the
spyryte
of
god
to
persecute
or
to
putte
to
death
for
vnbelefe
or
errours
/
consyderyng
that
fayth
(
as
he
doth
saye
)
is
a
gyfte
of
god
/
&
no
man
maye
haue
yt
of
hym selfe
.
Also
because
Christe
neuer
compellyd
any
man
to
beleue
in
hym
,
commaundynge
the
wedes
to
be
suffered
amonge
the
corne
vntyll
the
heruest
commyth
.
☞
W.
No
fayle
he
wrote
so
at
the
beginnyng
/
but
afterwarde
experience
tawght
hym
the
contrarye
.
For
if
so
be
that
he
&
the
Oecolampadyanes
had
permittyd
theyr
clyentes
to
do
what
they
lusted
wythout
any
restraynte
:
they
had
ben
quite
oute
of
auctorite
ere
this
tyme
a
daye
.
●pon
whych
consideracyon
yt
was
forfendyd
in
all
cyties
and
iurisdyccyones
of
the
Lutheranes
/
that
no
man
shuld
bye
or
sell
other
resceyue
,
any
booke
or
treatise
compyled
by
the
Oecolampadyanes
.
And
they
in
lyke
maner
made
actes
to
suppresse
the
Anabaptystes
/
fearyng
left
theyr
sectes
shuld
vaynquesshe
theyre
faccyon
.
N.
yf
the
Anabaptystes
haue
so
many
sectes
as
ye
recyte
,
I
praye
yowe
to
declare
some
of
them
.
☞
W.
At
your
instaunce
I
shall
gladly
.
There
be
some
whych
hold
opynyon
that
all
deuylles
&
damnyd
sowles
shall
be
sauyd
at
the
daye
of
dome
.
Some
of
them
persuade
that
the
serpent
whyche
dysceyued
Eue
was
Christ
.
Some
of
them
zraunt
to
euery
man
and
woman
two
soules
.
Some
affyrme
lecherye
to
be
no
synne
,
&
the
one
maye
vse
a nother
mannes
wyfe
withoute
offence
.
Some
take
apon
them
to
be
sooth
sayers
and
prophetes
of
wonderfull
thynges
to
come
/
&
haue
prophecyed
the
daye
of
iudgement
to
be
at
hande
:
some
with
in
thre
monethes
,
some
wyth
in
one
moneth
,
some
wythin
vi
.
dayes
.
Some
of
them
bothe
men
and
women
at
theyre
congregacyones
for
a
mysterye
shew
them selfes
naked
,
affyrmyng
that
they
be
in
the
state
of
innocencye
.
Also
some
hold
that
no
man
ought
to
be
punysshed
or
suffere
execucyon
for
any
cryme
or
trespace
be
yt
neuer
so
horryble
,
wherof
I
will
shew
yow
an
example
done
mater
in
dede
.
In
Switzerland
a
lytle
from
saynt
Gall
at
a
place
namyd
Cella
Abbatis
;
one
of
these
anabaptystes
slew
hys
owne
brother
/
&
smote
of
his
heade
.
when
he
was
demaundyd
why
he
dyd
so
,
this
was
hys
answer
:
It
was
the
wyll
of
the
father
that
I
shuld
do
yt
/
and
so
he
escaped
wythout
punysshement
.
For
though
they
be
gredy
inreprouing
other
mennes
fawtes
/
makynge
haynous
exclamacyones
agaynst
them
:
yet
ponder
they
full
lytle
the
correccyon
of
theyr
owne
enormityes
/
callynge
them
infyrmyteis
and
weaknes
of
the
flesshe
be
they
neuer
so
abhomynable
N.
well
yet
me
thynketh
by
your
sayenge
here
before
,
that
many
of
them
leade
a
more
commendable
life
in
face
of
the
world
than
the
comone
sorte
of
the
Lutheranes
or
Oecolampadianes
,
☞
W.
ye
verely
vnto
the
outwarde
ostentacyon
.
But
there
commeth
greater
incouenyence
by
theym
whych
haue
suche
a
shadowe
of
holy
lyuyng
,
than
by
the
other
.
And
there
is
nothyng
more
peryllous
in
seducynge
the
symple
/
than
a
payntyd
pretence
of
an
holye
lyfe
/
where
as
they
swerue
ones
from
the
ryght
fayth
and
catholyke
belefe
.
whyche
ys
easye
to
be
proued
by
euydent
examples
as
well
of
the
olde
heretykes
,
as
of
oure
newe
captaynes
of
the
moste
hye
heresyes
.
And
to
shew
you
the
truth
as
I
haue
expertely
founde
,
some
I
haue
knowen
so
angelyke
of
conuersacyon
,
that
I
coude
haue
foū●e
in
my
harte
to
commytte
my
soule
holly
in
to
theyr
direccyon
:
whom
afterward
I
haue
perfytely
perceyued
to
be
auctours
of
suche
detestable
heresyes
/
that
it
wold
make
a
cristen
harte
to
tremble
for
to
here
thēonis
namyd
.
And
to
tel
you
of
one
amonge
many
/
I
was
aquaynted
wyth
a
certeyn
persone
of
the
Oecolampadyans
in
the
cytie
of
Argentyne
,
which
led
a
lyfe
inculpable
amonge
hys
neyghbours
,
&
was
reputed
of
vertuous
conuersacyon
exercysynge
hym selfe
contynually
in
charytable
workes
,
and
vnderstode
fresshly
the
scryptures
in
his
mother
tounge
,
for
he
was
ignorant
of
latine
.
Afterwarde
he
fell
in
to
so
abhominable
heresye
/
that
he
denyed
openly
the
new
testament
,
sayenge
that
Chryste
was
a
fals
prophete
,
and
all
his
apostles
dysceuers
,
acceptyng
no
parte
of
the
olde
testament
but
the
v.
bookes
of
Moyses
.
The
chefe
prechers
and
lerned
men
of
the
cyte
cam
vnto
hym
for
to
reforme
hym
by
waye
of
disputacyon
,
and
to
brynge
hym
from
his
errour
/
requyrynge
hym
to
shew
what
grounde
of
scrypture
or
what
occasyon
moued
hym
to
take
so
peryllous
●pynyon
.
To
whom
he
answe●ed
coldly
wyth
soft
wordes
&
●emure
countenaunce
,
how
he
wolde
nother
dyspute
nor
argue
wyth
them
,
sayenge
that
●t
was
his
belefe
&
was
assurid
of
god
with
witnesse
of
his
conscyence
to
be
trewe
.
Apon
this
incontynente
he
was
enprysoned
and
at
last
brought
before
the
lordes
of
the
towne
/
whiche
in
lyke
maner
exhorted
hym
to
reuoke
his
heresyes
/
manacynge
hym
with
feare
of
terryble
deth
yf
he
wolde
not
chaunge
hys
erronyous
mynde
.
He
answered
that
he
was
redy
to
suffre
what
so
euer
deth
god
had
ordeyned
hym
vnto
,
and
wolde
nother
for
feare
nor
for
fauour
go
from
his
opynyon
.
wherfore
after
a
suffycyent
delyberacyon
seynge
he
wolde
tourne
by
no
meanes
/
sentens
was
gyuen
that
he
shulde
be
burnyd
.
N.
In
good
fayth
well
worthy
:
but
was
he
burnyd
in
dede
?
☞
W.
No.
For
when
he
shulde
haue
gone
to
the
place
of
execucyon
/
accordynge
to
the
vsaunce
of
the
countrye
he
was
fyrst
brought
before
the
towne
howse
/
and
there
hys
artycles
recyted
.
He
was
asked
whether
they
were
the
very
same
which
he
hadde
affermyd
before
them
.
He
answered
ye
.
Howbeit
nowe
(
he
sayd
)
god
hath
openyd
my
ignoraunce
,
&
I
aknowlege
me
slaunderously
to
haue
erryd
askynge
yow
all
forgyuenes
.
I
byleue
perfytely
that
Iesus
Chryst
is
my
sauyour
,
and
am
redy
in
his
fayth
to
suffre
this
deth
prepared
for
me
.
The
lordes
then
where
as
they
had
gyuen
sentence
that
he
shoulde
haue
ben
burnid
/
for
a
more
easy●eth
they
assyned
hym
to
be
be●edyd
,
wherof
he
thanked
them
,
and
went
toward
the
place
of
iustyce
/
pacyently
takyng
hys
deth
with
great
repentaunce
.
N.
Thys
may
be
a
good
admonysshement
that
men
shulde
not
be
so
wauerynge
in
fayth
/
as
to
gyue
credence
in
all
thinges
to
any
persone
for
the
onely
pretence
of
exteryoure
holines
,
in
as
moche
as
the
deuyll
can
transfygure
hym selfe
in
to
an
angels
likenes
,
and
a
fals
peruerter
take
vppon
hym
the
offyce
of
a
trewe
apostle
.
Moreouer
I
consyder
by
your
communycacyon
and
playne
experyence
here
rehersyd
/
that
yf
the
froward
sturdynes
of
vnruly
people
were
not
restreyned
by
lawes
,
prohybycyons
,
&
sharpe
punys●hemētes
/
euery
comone
weale
wolde
be
soone
subuertyd
,
and
the
hole
world
come
to
nought
.
☞
W.
As
for
that
ye
may
take
example
natferrehens
at
the
countye
of
Emdone
in
east
Fryse
lande
/
where
the
erle
ruler
of
the
county
fyrstle
resceyuyng
Martyn
Luthers
doctryne
,
&
afterwarde
Oecolampadins
opynyon
:
suffryd
his
peple
to
rede
all
maner
of
bookes
,
and
to
be
of
what
soeuer
secte
or
opynyon
they
wolde
without
any
restreynte
.
Shortely
after
one
of
theyr
chefe
preachers
whiche
hadde
bene
a
freer
obseruante
,
a
man
of
subtyle
lernynge
and
pleasaunte
speche
,
hyghly
estemyd
amonge
the
people
:
began
to
preache
in
open
audyence
against
the
blyssed
trynyte
/
sayenge
that
there
was
but
one
persone
,
one
god
,
&
that
our
sauyoure
Chryst
was
a
creature
as
we
are
,
a
pure
man
,
&
not
god
but
hauynge
goddes
spyryte
.
This
caused
not
a
lyttell
dyscorde
betwene
the
prechers
and
the
peple
/
for
many
of
the
countrye
leanyd
vnto
him
,
takynge
hys
parte
so
strongly
that
the
erle
was
fayne
to
banysshe
hym
owte
of
hys
domynyon
,
allbeit
hys
pestyferous
sede
remayned
styll●
Then
cam
thyther
doctor
Baltazar
,
and
after
hym
Carolstadius
/
bryngynge
in
the
fac●yon
of
the
Anabaptistes
/
to
the
augmenting
of
greater
confusyon
.
For
where
as
some
crystenyd
theyr
chyldren
,
theyr
next
neyghbours
wolde
not
/
one
condemnyng
another
with
dedly
hatred
.
The
meane
season
a
certeyne
skynner
of
Denmarcke
in
the
dukdome
of
Holsacye
,
where
Martyn
Luthers
doctryne
was
onely
in
strength
/
prechyd
Oecolampadius
opynyon
with
so
crafty
argumentes
,
that
Martynes
faine
began
to
decreace
.
wherfore
doctour
Pomerane
was
sent
from
wyttenberge
to
dyspute
agaynst
hym
/
and
in
conclusyon
obtayned
the
vyctory
through
parcyall
fauoure
(
as
some
reportyd
)
of
the
duke
and
lordes
of
the
cyteys
of
Homburgh
and
Breame
:
whiche
immedyatly
commaundyd
that
no
man
shulde
be
so
hardye
to
contrarye
or
swerue
from
the
doctryne
of
Martyn
Luther
,
vnder
payne
of
banysshynge
and
other
●unysshement
.
Then
two
prechers
of
Breame
were
sent
to
Emdone
to
dyswade
the
erle
&
hys
people
from
Oecolampadius
opynyon
,
and
from
the
confuse
dyuersyte
of
other
sectes
/
also
to
reduce
theym
agayne
vnto
Martyn
Luthers
wayes
.
The
erle
with
hys
councell
at
ther
perswasyons
alyenatyd
theyr
myndes
from
Oecolampadius
/
streytely
chargyng
all
those
prechers
whiche
had
susteynyd
his
faccyon
,
or
any
other
sauynge
Martyn
Luthers
/
to
departe
owt
of
hys
countrye
by
a
certeyne
daye
apoynted
.
Then
was
it
a
wonder
to
se
what
murmuracyon
,
grudge
,
and
rumour
of
sedycyon
was
amonge
the
people
/
not
without
lykelyhed
of
fallynge
togyther
by
the
eares
&
insurreccyon
agaynste
theyr
prynce
,
had
not
he
sought
prouydent
meanes
to
pacyfye
them
.
Thys
contynued
no
longe
space
but
letters
came
from
Argentyne
,
Basyle
,
zyricke
,
Bearne
,
and
from
many
persons
of
notable
erudycyon
after
theyr
estemyng
,
also
from
the
prynce
of
Hesse
/
aduertysynge
the
erle
with
seryous
exhortacyon
,
to
calle
home
agayne
the
prechers
of
Oecolampadius
faccyon
/
&
reprehendyng
hys
sodayn
mutabylyte
from
theyr
institute
,
so
apparent
by
manyfest
coniectures
to
preuayle
aboue
the
other
.
At
whose
importune
requestes
and
subtyle
instygacyons
,
he
chaunged
yet
agayne
hys
purpose
,
and
gaue
the
Oecolampadyane
prechers
lycens
to
returne
in
to
theyr
olde
places
,
and
liberte
to
preache
as
they
were
before
accustomed
:
commaundyng
sylence
vnto
the
other
or
ellys
auoydaunce
of
his
countrye
.
●o
thus
may
ye
se
what
varyable
inconstauncy
and
sondrye
mutacious
of
condemnyd
heresyes
hath
ensued
with
euydent
confusyon
,
where
as
people
be
dyuided
from
the
vnyte
of
the
chrysten
chyrche
,
&
contemne
to
walke
after
the
holsome
decre●s
of
catholyke
fathers
/
wrestynge
the
ryght
sence
of
scryptures
vnto
theyr
crooked
ymaginacyons
.
And
specially
where
the
brydle
of
sensualyte
is
sett
at
large
/
to
the
sturdye
frowardnes
of
sedieyous
subiectes
,
somtyme
by
ye●ffemynat
tendernes
of
princes
so
negligently
regardid
/
that
afterward
theyr
fearfull
rygour
is
scantable
to
redresse
it
:
which
hath
bene
the
lamentable
dekay
of
the
Boemes
,
and
is
now
the
ruynous
myschefe
of
the
hye
Almaynes
/
not
vnlykely
to
be
the
desolacion
of
crystendome
,
yf
remedy
be
not
founde
in
season
.
N.
Sauynge
your
pacyence
me
thought
ye
declared
here
that
the
Landgraue
of
Hesse
is
a
fauourer
of
Swinglius
&
Oecolampadius
/
who
wyth
his
people
as
I
vnderstande
admytteth
Martyne
Luthers
wayes
and
none
other
.
☞
W.
I
will
not
denye
but
he
maynteneth
styll
Martyn
Luthers
doctrine
/
all
be
yt
syns
the
dyspotacyon
was
before
hym
,
he
hath
fauoured
so
greatly
the
opynyon
of
Oecolampadius
and
Swinglius
,
that
were
it
not
as
I
deme
for
feare
of
displeasynge
hys
confederate
cosyne
the
duke
of
Saxony
,
and
frentyke
perturbacion
of
Martyn
Luther
/
he
wolde
haue
sustayned
yt
openly
ere
this
tyme
.
wytnesse
the
gloryous
comendacyon
vnto
theyr
faces
whiles
they
were
present
/
and
synguler
preferrement
of
them
amonge
hys
famylyer
counsellers
/
also
hys
beneuolent
lyberalyte
at
theyr
departynge
wyth
letters
afterward
betwyxe
them
farsydfull
of
paynted
prayses
in
theyr
absence
.
N.
I
beseche
yow
when
and
vnder
what
maner
was
this
dysputacion
.
☞
W.
In
the
yere
of
our
lord
.1528
.
the
prince
of
Hesse
in
his
chefe
cyte
of
Marburge
caused
there
to
be
assembled
Martine
Luther
Melancton
,
Oecolampadius
,
Swynglius
,
Capito
,
Butzer
wyth
many
other
of
the
most
famous
clerkes
of
the
Lutheranes
and
Oecolampadyans
(
the
Anabaptystes
onely
excludyd
)
where
dyuers
artycles
were
doutfully
proponyd
to
the
nomber
of
.xv.
whyche
before
tyme
had
bene
dyscussyd
&
clerelye
determyned
in
generall
counselles
of
the
vnyuersall
chyrch
.
And
when
they
had
by
longe
pro●cesse
vnfrutefully
dysputed
aboute
the
iustifycacion
of
fayth
without
good
work●
:
of
baptyme
,
and
other
questyons
apon
whych
they
had
wryten
hole
bookes
:
yet
in
the
ende
were
they
dryuen
to
the
olde
determinacyon
of
the
chyrch
,
saue
les●e
theyre
wrytynges
shulde
seme
in
vayne
,
&
theyr
assemblynge
to
be
ydle
/
they
founde
out
some
contrariety
of
so
slender
importancye
,
that
men
may
playnely
iudge
in
them
,
other
inuyncyble
arrogance
dysdaynynge
to
be
reformed
/
or
elles
obstynate
malyce
sekynge
for
the
nonis
of
impugne
the
troth
.
●oncernynge
the
sacrament
of
the
altare
wherin
rested
the
princypall
mater
of
theyre
disputacyon
/
they
greatly
varyed
and
coude
by
no
meanes
agree
.
How
beyt
they
concludyd
attelast
,
that
eche
parte
holdynge
them
contente
wyth
theyre
be
lefe
/
shuld
departe
in
louynge
frendshyppe
,
without
any
odyous
writyng
from
thence
forthe
one
agaynste
a nother
.
N.
whether
of
them
obtayned
the
vyctory
?
☞
W.
They
deuided
yt
betwene
theym
whyle
they
were
presente
.
But
sone
after
theyr
departyng
,
the
Lutheranes
ascribed
it
to
Martyn
Luther
/
and
contrarye
the
Oecolampadyanes
vnto
Oecolampadyus
and
Swynglyus
.
N.
vse
they
suche
craftye
conueyauns
in
promotyng
theyr
gospell
?
☞
W.
ye
hardely
▪
and
that
wythowt
any
shame
wh●●
they
be
detected
of
ytt
/
〈◊〉
syng
men
agaynst
theyr
〈◊〉
to
be
fautours
of
theyr
〈◊〉
.
Dyd
not
Nouioma●●●
gather
certayne
sentencys
out
of
Erasmus
workes
,
whych
falsly
depraued
he
coupled
vnto
Martyn
Luthers
〈◊〉
,
and
caused
them
to
be
imprynted
:
blasing
abrode
that
Erasmus
and
Luther
were
of
one
opynyon
/
to
the
slaunderous
hynderaunce
of
hys
●fytable
studye
?
of
whom
after
muche
other
detraccyon
/
he
was
not
ashamed
to
craue
subsedye
in
hys
beggarly
indygence
.
Also
Butzer
playd
a
lyke
pageante
wyth
Pomerane
in
translating
hys
psalter
out
of
latyne
into
the
almayn
tonge
.
For
where
he
aspyed
any
occasyon
to
treat
of
the
blyssed
sacramente
:
he
plucked
out
Pomeranes
sentences
,
and
graffed
in
hys
own
after
no
compendyous
fassyon
:
which
as
sone
as
they
were
enprynted
/
the
fame
noysed
ouer
all
that
Pomerane
(
vnknowyng
to
hym
)
was
one
wyth
the
Oecolampadeans
/
whych
afterwarde
he
apertely
detestyd
in
dyuers
epystles
,
dyscoueryng
the
falsehod
of
Butzer
.
Such
suttyll
dryftes
I
may
tell
you
among
them
is
dayly
not
vnpractysed
.
N.
well
,
ye
haue
here
rehersed
many
thynges
agaynst
them
/
wherin
yf
I
and
such
other
wold
gyue
credence
vnto
your
saynges
wythoute
surmyse
of
ꝑ●cyalyte
,
we
shuld
sone
turne
our
affeccyon
from
theyr
lernyng
.
But
seyng
ye
haue
bene
a
fauourer
of
them
,
and
paraduenture
bothe
spoken
and
written
as
largely
as
the
rankest
of
them
all
whom
ye
now
call
heretykes
:
fayne
wolde
I
wyt
what
mocyonyd
yow
to
take
yt
in
hande
so
ernestly
,
and
now
to
shyft
your
selfe
〈◊〉
yt
so
lyghtely
.
☞
W.
To
shew
you
the
trothe
w●thowt
dyssymulacyon
how
I
was
entyced
vnto
theyr
faccy●ne
,
the
verye
begynnynge
was
thys
.
I
had
redde
certayn
treatyses
of
Martyne
Luther
of
the
iustyfycacyon
onely
by
fayth
wythowt
good
dedes
,
/
how
man
had
no
fre
wyll
,
how
owre
good
warkes
auaylled
vs
nothynge
to
be
sauyd
,
nother
our
yll
dedys
shuld
cause
vs
to
be
damned
,
and
many
other
artycles
whych
he
falsely
presumed
to
ground
vppon
scripture●
Also
I
dylygently
notyd
howe
he
descrybed
the
abuses
of
popys
,
cardynallys
,
byshoppys
,
preestys
and
relygyous
persones
/
declarynge
how
the
present
dekay
of
the
church
,
farre
dyffered
from
the
perfeccyon
of
the
apostles
and
holy
fathers
at
the
furst
begin
●yng
:
wherin
he
made
no
lye
though
in
other
thinges
he
spared
the
trouthe
.
Furthermore
geuyng
eare
to
the
plesaunt
rumours
of
hys
reformacyons
,
highly
commended
among
new fangled
people
:
yt
sett
myne
hart
so
on
fire
,
that
I
coud
not
rest
vntyll
I
had
bene
there
with
them
.
After
that
I
had
sene
Martin
Luther
,
Poinerane
,
Melancton
,
&
herd
theyr
prechynges
/
perceyuynge
theyr
order
there
in
Saxonye
:
I
went
in
to
hye
Almayne
vnto
the
Oecolampadyanes
/
&
remaynyng
there
amonge
theym
,
was
oftentymes
conuersaunte
with
the
Anabaptistes
.
In
the
meane
space
I
sawe
many
wonderfull
alteracyons
/
as
destroyeng
of
monasteryes
,
pluckyng
down
of
churches
,
castynge
out
of
ymages
,
breakynge
of
aultares
,
&
caryeng
the
consecrate
stones
to
the
buyldynge
of
theyr
bull
warkes
/
also
maryages
of
prestes
,
monkes
,
freres
,
nonnes
,
contempte
of
holy
dayes
,
anul●ynge
of
vygyles
,
fastynge
of
the
lent
and
embrynge
dayes
clene
reiecte
with
other
laudable
ordynaunces
instytute
by
the
churche
▪
●ll
places
of
scripture
where
mencyon
is
made
of
Antichryst
,
fals
prophetes
,
maysters
of
lyes
,
&
such
other
/
they
violently
applyed
vnto
the
clergye
/
namynge
them selfe
crystene
brotherne
,
dyscyples
of
Cryste
and
apostles
of
hys
gospell
.
In
denyenge
purg●torye
and
auctoryte
of
the
pope
,
yf
they
found
in
auncyent
a●ctours
as
moch
as
a
corrupte
tytle
of
a
pystle
sownynge
any
thyng
to
theyr
purpose
,
all
be
it
the
epystle
selfe
made
hole
agaynst
it
:
yet
wold
they
take
it
as
the
worde
of
god
&
sure
reuelacyon
of
the
spyryte
.
Contrarye
wyse
,
yf
any
alledgyd
Austyn
,
Hierome
,
Cypryane
,
or
Chrysostome
agaynst
them
they
wolde
admytte
theyr
sentencys
for
none
auctoryte
/
sayenge
they
were
men
,
&
all
men
were
lyers
.
In
lyke
maner
concernyng
the
sacrament
of
the
aultare
,
where
they
redde
in
doctours
of
the
spyrytuall
eatynge
and
goostely
beynge
:
they
onely
acceptyd
that
/
and
vnder
the
coloure
therof
they
wolde
exclude
the
corporall
eatynge
and
bodely
presence
of
Chryst
,
to
the
establysshyng
of
theyr
blasphemous
errors
:
whiche
they
shadowyd
vnder
the
couert
of
hypocrysye
and
persuasyons
of
peruertyd
scryptures
/
in
suche
wyse
that
openly
seyng
I
coude
not
perceyue
them
,
vntyll
it
pleasyd
god
of
hys
inestymable
goodnes
to
brynge
me
out
of
the
lande
of
darcknes
and
regyon
of
deth
,
vnto
the
clerenes
of
his
knowlege
&
lyuyng
lyght
of
trothe
.
I
can
not
excuse
me
but
among
the
wycked
I
endeuored
my selfe
to
haue
done
euyll
:
but
god
so
mercyfully
preuentyd
me
/
that
it
came
to
small
effect
in
▪
doynge
any
harme
.
If
I
haue
bene
occasion
of
any
mannes
fall
or
cause
of
slaunder
/
I
am
sorye
for
yt
and
aske
forgeuenes
.
Not
wythstandynge
I
neuer
defendyd
any
opynyon
obstynatly
,
nother
despysed
the
admonycyon
of
any
vertuous
person
:
that
I
haue
erred
was
through
ygnorance
and
of
no
malicious
pertynacyte
.
where
ye
be
in
perplexyte
of
credence
geuyng
vnto
my
wordes
/
I
am
sure
if
that
I
spake
according
to
your
appetyte
,
ye
wold
put
no
dyffydence
in
me
whether
I
sayd
the
veryte
or
lyed
:
for
yt
ys
a
playne
case
amonge
the
fauorers
of
these
new
sectes
/
that
they
wyll
refuse
no
forged
tales
makyng
aught
for
theyr
syde
,
be
they
neuer
fo
fals
.
And
seing
ye
beleuyd
me
in
errour
:
ye
oughte
not
to
mystrust
me
nowe
in
my
faythfull
re●ocacyon
,
voluntarye
and
not
coattyd
.
N.
Cler●ly
many
men
presuppose
that
other
ye
be
deludyd
by
the
flatteryng
perswasyon
of
some
worldly
persons
/
or
ells
vtterly
geue●
in
to
a
reprobate
mynde
/
through
gredy
desyre
of
yerthely
promocyon
and
appetyte
of
ydle
lyuynge
.
☞
W.
It
ys
not
in
my
power
to
stoppe
the
wronge
surmyse
or
mysse
reporte
agaynst
me
,
now
enemye
vnto
theyr
errours
:
whyles
they
abuse
the
same
to
the
frendes
of
theyr
heresyes
:
namely
where
as
Sathane
ys
loosed
at
large
,
&
the
lyenge
goste
the
spyryte
of
vntrueth
,
walkyth
at
lyberty
vn●●streynede
.
wolde
god
they
we●e
as
pr●st
to
remoue
the
〈◊〉
out
of
theyr
own
eyes
/
as
they
be
prompt
to
aspye
a
lytell
mo●eis
other
mēny●
.
They
crye
out
sore
vppon
the
worldely
wysdome
and
carnall
prudence
of
other
persons
,
callynge
them
tyran●ys
and
mynysters
of
Ante●●yste
/
where
as
I
can
perceyue
none
more
gredy
of
carnall
polycyes
and
fleshly
ayde
of
tyrantys
than
they
be
.
●ere
he
neuer
so
cruell
a
creature
or
myscheuous
fende
that
is
turnyd
to
theyr
faccions
/
they
re●ceyue
hym
for
an
euangelyke
dys●y●●e
,
hys
malycyo●s
mynde
nothyng
mynyshed
,
all
thoughe
ꝑase
hys
doynge
of
myschef●
ys
●estrayned
by
poue●tye
or
some
other
myserable
impedyment
agaynst
hys
〈…〉
any
body
speke
ought
against
such
peruerse
penytetys
/
forth
wyth
they
alege
the
vnpytyous
fie●ines
of
saynt
Paule
before
hys
conuersyon
,
the
synnes
of
Mary
Magdalene
and
her
penaunce
,
also
the
example
of
Cryst
receyuyng
publycanes
&
synners
,
and
how
the
angellys
of
heuen
ioy
more
vppon
one
penytent
synner
&c.
●●ce
.
15.
I
pray
yowe
what
a
gostely
patrone
was
Huttē
theyr
furyous
champyon
/
a
man
nott
onely
ouerwhelmyd
wythe
heresyes
,
but
also
stuffed
full
of
all
vnhappines
/
whose
horryble
ende
was
accordyng
to
his
myscheuous
lyfe
.
For
after
that
he
had
bene
plaged
with
the
french
pokkys
,
and
was
helyd
of
them
seuen
sondry
tymes
:
he
myserably
dyed
of
them
in
an
yle
of
Swicherland
in
extreme
pouerte
abhorred
of
all
people
/
hys
vyle
carcas
eaten
wyth
sores
,
more
stynkyng
than
any
caryon
/
so
that
vnneth
any
body
myghte
abyde
the
lothsome
staunch
of
yt
.
More
ouer
I
beseche
you
wyth
what
crysten
spyryte
dyd
Fraunces
of
Syckhym
defend
them
,
a
subuerter
of
peas
,
a
burner
of
poore
mennes
houses
,
&
a
troubler
of
all
Germany
/
vppon
whom
the
vengeaunce
of
god
dyd
lyghte
,
and
was
sodenly
slayn
in
a
castell
besyde
Crutzynacke
to
the
infamy
of
hys
aunceters
and
disherytaunce
of
hys
chyldern
.
I
passe
ouer
the
captayns
of
the
vplandysh
people
and
theyr
insurreccyon
partely
touched
before
.
N.
ye
wot
well
ynough
that
Martyn
Luther
dyd
wryte
agaynst
them
,
condemnyng
theyr
sedycyous
enterpryse
.
☞
W.
So
dyd
he
in
dede
when
yt
was
to
late
voyde
of
remedy
.
But
as
long
as
they
were
in
any
lyklyhod
to
preuayle
/
he
rather
supported
them
.
what
heuenly
wysdome
dyd
the
monstruous
fygures
sygnyfy
/
where
M.
Luther
was
portred
wyth
a
boke
in
hys
hand
,
&
by
hym
Hutten
hys
protectour
in
complete
harnes
holdyng
a
drawen
sword
/
with
certayn
textis
vnderneth
prouokyng
sedycyon
.
And
as
for
ydlenes
/
I
sawe
no
manne
more
fawty
in
yt
than
them selfes
:
except
ye
account
that
for
profytable
bysynes
when
they
be
nother
ydle
nor
well
occupied
.
Are
there
not
a
great
infynyte
nomber
amonge
them
,
that
can
say
sharpely
to
other
mennys
chargys
the
commaundement
of
god
gyuen
to
Adam
:
In
swete
of
thy
face
thou
shalt
ete
thy
brede
/
&
dylygently
repete
the
laborous
workyng
of
saynte
Paule
and
other
dyscyples
of
Cryste
,
whych
lyue
dylycately
in
ydlenes
?
And
suppose
ye
that
a
man
may
not
fynde
many
of
them
whych
haue
theyr
vppon
the
spoyle
of
churches
,
robbery
of
monestaryes
,
and
extorcyon
of
innocent
people
?
N.
Thoughe
some
of
them
be
of
such
disposycion
:
yet
ought
not
ye
to
condemne
,
the
ho●e
nomber
of
the
good
for
a
small
some
of
the
yuell
☞
W.
why
do
ye
then
dispyse
the
vniuersall
churche
/
because
some
of
them
be
nought
▪
N.
Mary
for
because
the
more
some
of
the
yuell
,
surmountythe
the
lesse
nomber
of
the
good
.
☞
W.
And
thynke
yowe
that
yt
may
not
be
better
verefyed
among
the
new
gospellers
,
of
that
which
the
best
ys
stark
nought
?
Notwythstandynge
some
I
haue
knowen
of
excellent
lyterature
,
whych
for
theyr
sober
conuersacyon
and
temperate
lyuyng
,
if
they
hadde
bene
as
seryous
in
furtherynge
the
fayth
as
they
were
in
settyng
forthe
of
heresies
/
were
worthy
to
be
pillers
of
Crystes
chyrch
.
But
I
ponder
not
so
greatly
the
outward
holynes
of
hypocrytes
/
consyderyng
that
Arrius
,
Ma●iche
us
,
Pellagius
,
&
other
execrable
heretykes
euen
as
they
b●
equall
wyth
them
in
heresyes
/
so
were
they
not
inferyours
to
them
in
such
hypocrysy
.
How
many
here
in
Englond
wythin
thys
.
C.
yere
haue
rydde
them selfys
out
of
thys
mortall
lyfe
wythe
a
desperate
dethe
hated
both
to
god
&
man
/
some
drownyng
thē selfys
,
some
cuttyng
theyr
own
throtes
,
and
many
hangyng
them selfys
/
whyche
in
theyr
lyfe
tyme
haue
bene
reputed
for
well
dysposed
,
vertuous
,
&
charytable
folke
aboue
the
comon
sorte
of
crysten●
people
/
&
peraduenture
some
here
in
London
of
oure
olde
aquayntaunce
.
In
whom
is
fulfylled
the●
sayng
of
Samuell
:
〈◊〉
marketh
those
thinges
that
〈◊〉
open
to
the
eye
,
but
god
con●●deryth
the
secretnes
of
the
hart●
to
the
verefyenge
of
Crystys
worde
in
the
gospell
●uce
.
17●
That
whych
is
hyghly
auaunced
of
men
/
is
abhominable
in
the
syghte
of
god
.
Neuerthelesse
yf
ye
go
to
the
vttermost
:
I
coud
appoynt
ye
to
many
of
the
church
,
whych
accomplysh
the
perfeccyon
of
lyuyng
vnfaynedly
/
wherof
these
men
afore
sayd
haue
but
a
bareyn
pretenc●
or
a
domb
symylytude
.
And
as
for
the
worst
multytude
of
prestys
,
monkes
,
chanons
,
freers
and
other
relygyous
persons
/
I
dare
compare
theym
wythe
the
comon
sorte
generally
of
these
new
faccions
/
all
though
ye
put
a
part
theyr
fayth
&
obedyence
to
the
church
,
whych
I
re●en
no
small
mater
.
N.
So
god
help
me
then
dare
I
gyue
the
verdyte
wythout
any
quest
,
that
they
be
stark
noughte
all
the
meyny
of
them
.
And
to
beginne
furst
of
all
at
the
freers
/
ye
se
what
a
rascall
rable
ronneth
abowte
the
cuntrey
wyth
bosomed
sermons
,
preachyng
fables
and
olde
wyues
tales
in
stede
of
the
worde
of
god
/
whych
ar
redy
matys
to
associate
vnthriftes
in
all
myschefe
,
to
the
slaunder
of
crysten
relygyon
.
And
to
speke
of
monkes
,
chanons
,
wyth
other
relygyous
possessyoners
/
I
praye
yowe
what
a
gostely
lyfe
leade
they
,
geuen
holly
to
s●outhfull
ydlenes
and
bely
ioy
in
etynge
and
drynkyng
,
wythowte
study
of
scrypture
or
endeuermēnte
of
any
vertnouse
excercise
.
Th●y
syng
in
theyr
querys
wyth
as
great
deuocion
,
as
hunters
do
at
the
halowyng
of
a
foxe
/
hauyng
delite
in
yellyng
of
theyr
voyces
and
cryeng
of
organs
,
but
no
swetnes
of
spyrytuall
melody
.
Also
seculer
preestes
euen
as
bad
as
the
best
,
shall
ye
not
fynde
theym
at
tauernes
&
dyshonest
housys
,
drynkyng
&
gowsyng
tyll
they
be
as
dronken
as
apes
/
nothing
abashed
to
swere
blasphemous
othes
&
to
vse
fylthy
communycacyon
.
And
such
as
be
curates
hauing
charge
of
mennes
sowles
,
are
there
not
many
of
them
blynder
that
betles
/
destitute
of
necessary
doctrine
with
good
lyuing
,
whereby
theye
myghte
edyfye
theyre
parysshons
.
It
were
to
●edyous
a
processe
to
reherse
theyr
wrechydnes
so
farre
ou●
of
order
/
whych
all
the
worlde
perceyueth
&
speketh
agaynst
it
,
and
yet
can
be
none
amendement
.
☞
W.
If
theyr
wrecthidnes
of
lyuyng
as
ye
say
be
manyfest
to
all
the
world
:
it
shall
not
be
so
nedefull
for
yowe
to
declare
any
further
therof
/
as
yt
wyll
be
expedyente
for
me
to
tell
of
these
new
gospellers
,
whose
erronyous
wyckednes
is
knowen
to
very
few
here
in
this
region
.
And
surely
to
improue
the
vniuersall
churche
as
iuell
,
because
many
of
them
be
lewde
:
it
were
no
lesse
madnes
than
to
sette
at
nought
the
olde
testament
,
because
the
more
parte
of
the
childern
of
Israell
were
euill
/
other
to
dispise
the
gospell
because
all
these
newe
faccions
which
falsely
presume
to
be
folowers
of
it
,
are
heretikes
.
Among
whom
ye
shall
fynde
●enegate
freers
that
haue
cast
of
theyr
habytes
and
forsakyn
theyre
relygyon
,
whyche
haue
maryed
wyues
and
sone
after
scape
away
fro
theym
,
leauing
theym
in
carefull
desolacyon
/
ye
some
one
maryeng
.ii.
or
.iii.
wyues
in
dyuers
countreys
,
whome
they
haue
dysceyuyde
by
craftye
entycementys
/
makyng
theym
beleue
with
theyr
gorgeous
apparayle
that
they
●e
come
of
noble
&
ryche
frendes
.
And
of
these
are
there
many
which
walk
ouer
sondry
prouinces
,
with
glosynge
speche
and
swete
tales
/
spieng
owt
vnstable
people
that
will
be
waueryng
with
euery
winde
/
and
such
a●
theyr
stomackes
serue
them
to
contemne
fastynges
and
prayers
,
desyrous
of
carnall
lybertie
,
and
can
rayle
agaynste
the
clergy
,
caring
for
no
iurisdicc●on
/
and
when
suche
vnlawfull
menes
fayll
,
giue
them selfes
to
thefte
,
robbing
of
churches
and
sedycyous
dysturbaunce
/
whereby
some
of
them
are
promoted
to
the
galows
&
shamefull
marterdome
of
felons
.
Lykewise
apostata
monkes
&
●hanons
peruerted
vnto
theyr
fectes
,
some
bring
with
them
as
much
substaunce
of
the
spoyle
of
theyre
places
,
that
they
purchase
therwith
fayre
landes
&
yerely
rentes
.
Also
preestes
that
haue
made
cheuesaunce
of
their
benefices
for
.ii.
or
.iii.
C.
poundes
/
at
whose
comming
it
is
worlde
to
here
howe
god
ys
mangnyfyede
for
theyr
delynerance
frome
the
tyranny
(
as
they
call
yt
)
of
Antycryste
/
and
what
brotherly
chere
ys
made
with
feruent
reioyce
in
the
sustrāce
of
Crystes
crosse
,
namelye
yf
they
haue
store
of
monye
.
And
sone
after
they
are
prouydyd
of
fayre
wyues
in
safegarde
of
theyr
chastyte
,
and
to
augment
theyr
perfeccyon
/
wherby
some
of
theym
chaunce
to
be
so
vexyd
wyth
deuylles
,
that
theyr
gospell
ys
not
able
to
charme
theym
/
and
are
fayne
to
sonne
awaye
in
lyberty
of
the
lorde
,
ere
that
theyr
wyues
be
made
faste
in
the
bondes
of
oure
lady
.
Besyde
these
,
howe
many
in
Germany
haue
annuall
pensi●ns
of
cyties
and
townes
for
tearme
of
lyfe
,
bownde
to
no
maner
of
serues
/
whose
change
of
state
is
to
no
renuyng
of
spirituall
conuersacion
,
but
rather
an
vnsacyat
luste
of
fleshly
fredome
/
euydently
tryed
by
theyr
vycyous
behaueoure
,
ydle
lyuynge
,
&
dysguysed
apparayll
.
N.
ye
maye
speke
many
thynges
for
your
plesure
/
but
ye
knowe
ryght
well
,
the
crystyn
relygyon
standyth
not
in
owtwarde
raymente
,
nor
I
can
not
●e
but
as
good
a
soull
may
be
vnder
a
seculer
wede
,
as
in
a
relygyous
vesture
.
The
strange
dyuersyte
of
habytes
is
not
commaunded
of
god
/
nother
scrypture
ascribeth
any
holynes
vnto
them
.
☞
W.
In
good
fayth
I
speke
of
truth
&
not
of
plesure
For
it
is
to
me
mych
dyspleasure
to
se
them
suche
as
I
se
them
/
not
in
theyr
dysguysed
clothing
onely
▪
full
farre
vnsemely
for
them
,
if
they
were
eyther
suche
as
they
were
before
,
or
such
as
they
now
call
theym selfe
/
but
ouer
that
in
euery
kynde
of
all
dysordered
lyuyng
:
whych
ye
let
passe
,
as
though
I
had
founden
no
faut
but
wyth
theyr
clothynge
.
And
agaynste
that
ye
seme
to
set
at
nought
the
habytes
and
fassyons
of
religyouse
people
/
callyng
them
straunge
dyuersytees
&
thingis
nought
worth
,
because
they
be
not
commaunded
of
god
,
nor
that
scrypture
ascrybeth
no
holynes
in
them
.
But
as
for
strangnes
of
apparell
,
relygyouse
men
vse
none
.
But
theyr
apparell
was
at
the
furst
deuysed
by
such
as
they
that
now
hate
relyg●on
,
do
not
yet
denye
for
holy
blessed
men
.
And
now
they
cannot
be
straunge
,
when
they
contynew
styll
euery
order
hys
olde
fassyon
,
and
that
all
the
worlde
hath
loked
vppon
them
,
and
among
a
thousand
freers
none
go
better
appareled
then
an
other
.
But
now
vnto
the
tother
syde
,
these
that
ronne
away
from
them
vnto
these
Lutherans
/
they
go
I
say
dysguysed
strangely
from
that
theye
were
before
,
in
gay
●agged
cotes
,
and
cut
and
scotched
hosen
,
very
syghtely
forsothe
,
but
yet
not
very
semely
for
such
folk
as
they
were
and
shulde
be
.
And
thys
apparell
change
they
dayly
,
from
fassyon
to
fassion
euery
day
worse
than
other
/
their
new fangled
foly
&
theyr
wanton
pryde
neuer
cont●●
nor
satys●yede
.
And
where
ye
set
at
nought
all
strange
diuer
syte
of
habytes
,
in
whyche
ye
meane
I
wote
well
not
onely
religyouse
mennes
apparell
/
but
also
the
garmentys
worne
in
diuyne
seruyce
,
for
therin
I
knowe
youre
mynde
of
olde
:
I
say
these
gere
were
well
ordered
by
good
men
,
&
not
with
owt
the
good
helpe
of
god
.
And
ye
can
not
fynde
that
they
be
dyssalowed
of
god
,
but
rather
approuyd
/
in
as
moche
as
he
in
the
olde
testament
appoynted
vnto
the
prestes
and
mynysters
a
seuerall
dystynccyon
of
apparayle
frome
the
comone
peple
,
specyally
in
theyr
mynystracyons
▪
Also
yt
appereth
by
the
story
of
the
prophete
Heliseus
,
whom
〈◊〉
chyldren
of
Bethell
mocky●
and
wondred
▪
apon
/
that
he
was
not
clothyd
after
theyr
comen
fassyon
.
And
veryly
I
holde
it
more
conuenyent
for
relygyouse
persons
to
were
the
habytes
by
theyre
fore
fathers
in●●ytute
/
than
to
be
arayed
after
the
ruffyan
inuencyon
of
many
gospellers
in
Germany
.
N.
All
these
ar
but
blynde
reasons
of
your
own
fantasy
,
nothyng
to
the
purpose
.
The
orygynall
in
●●ytucyon
of
relygyous
habytes
began
vppon
certayn
consyderacyons
.
As
thus
:
when
holy
fathers
lyued
in
wyldernes
/
they
made
theyr
garmentes
after
a
fassyon
that
myght
best
defend
the
sharp
stormes
and
yll
wethers
.
And
some
that
gaue
them selfys
to
bodely
labour
,
contryued
theyr
clothes
to
be
shapen
in
a
most
hansome
maner
to
worke
in
.
Also
some
of
them
wyllyng
to
exchew
superfluytye
of
vesture
/
deuysed
theym
habytes
moste
apte
for
warmeth
&
sparyng
of
clothe
.
But
now
these
consyderacyons
faylyng
:
to
were
the
habytes
of
them
/
&
not
to
folowe
theyr
example
,
me
thynketh
yt
mere
hypocrysye●●
☞
W.
Then
may
I
say
to
you
agayne
after
the
same
forme
of
argumentacyon
.
The
fyrst
inuentours
of
thys
new
dysgysed
apparayll
,
were
hethen
peple
/
vnthryftes
,
fooles
,
and
myslyuyng
persons
:
now
ye
that
be
accounted
good
crysten
people
vse
the
same
,
where
as
ye
oughte
not
folow
theyr
lewdenes
/
therfore
ye
be
&c.
Notwythstanding
I
demaunded
ones
of
a
certayn
companion
of
these
sectis
whych
had
bene
of
a
strayt
relygyon
before
,
why
hys
garmentys
were
nowe
so
sumptious
,
all
to
pounced
with
gardes
and
iaggys
lyke
a
rutte●
of
the
launce
knyghtys
.
He
answeryd
to
me
that
he
dyd
yt
in
contempte
of
hypocrysy
.
why
quothe
I
dothe
nott
god
hate
pride
the
mother
of
hypocrisy
,
as
well
as
hypocrysy
yt
selfe
?
wherto
he
made
no
dyrect
answer
agayne
/
but
in
excusyng
hys
fawt
,
he
sayd
that
god
pryncypally
accepted
the
mekenes
of
the
hart
and
inward
crysten
maners
/
whych
I
beleue
were
so
inward
in
hym
,
that
seledome
he
shewed
any
of
them
outwardly
.
N.
I
graunted
before
that
there
were
some
lyghte
persons
.
But
what
say
you
to
the
prouisyon
of
pore
people
there
,
such
as
ar
aged
or
impotent
/
&
that
beggers
be
not
suffred
to
craue
at
mennes
doores
,
nor
to
loyter
ydelly
as
they
do
here
,
but
ar
set
a
worke
.
I
tell
you
some
men
thynk
yf
our
sturdy
monkes
,
chanons
,
&
freers
,
labored
for
theyr
lyuyng
as
we
lay
people
do
/
that
it
wolde
be
a
meryer
world
than
now
is
.
☞
W.
what
a
mery
tyme
it
wold
be
here
in
thys
land
I
am
vncertayne
/
but
I
am
sure
that
in
Germany
among
these
new
faccyons
,
ys
yet
but
a
sory
world
&
lyke
to
be
worse
.
ye
say
there
be
no
loytryng
begge●s
,
and
that
is
trew
/
for
few
or
none
resorteth
thydet
becawse
they
can
haue
none
almes
nor
relefe
/
excepte
they
wyl
do
intollerable
seruice
for
so
slender
wages
/
that
yf
they
be
not
of
sober
dyet
,
and
longe
exercysed
wyth
laboure
,
it
is
not
possyble
for
them
to
away
with
yt
.
But
what
is
theyr
labour
?
mary
pluckyng
downe
of
chyrches
and
monasteryes
,
and
buyldyng
of
bulwarkes
&
wallys
to
instrength
theyr
tow●es
agaynst
them
which
couet
to
reforme
them
.
And
here
is
a
dowt
to
be
mouyd
/
when
such
busynes
is
endyd
,
howe
shall
they
be
then
set
a
worke
,
consyderynge
that
in
other
occupacyons
a
fewer
nomber
than
be
all
redy
were
able
to
suffyse
that
peple
/
&
so
they
fynde
yt
there
all
redy
.
N.
God
wyll
prouyde
otherwyse
for
them
than
mannes
ymagynacyon
can
c●
prehende
.
☞
W.
If
theyr
wayes
lyked
hym
I
wot
wel
he
wold
.
But
sythe
yt
is
no
pleasure
to
hym
to
se
them
leue
the
faythe
and
fall
to
heresies
,
pull
down
chyrches
and
bylde
vpp
bulwarkes
agaynst
god
in
defence
of
theyr
abomynable
errours●
I
veryly
thynk
that
the
wrath
of
god
wyll
worke
them
vengeaunce
,
and
sende
suche
men
mych
mysery
,
and
abate
theyr
bulwarkes
to
the
grounde
/
as
he
abated
the
prowde
tow●●
of
Babylon
,
when
he
confounded
the
byelders
in
to
as
many
tonges
as
the
deuyll
hath
confounded
the
bylders
of
these
bulwarkes
in
to
many
shāefull
sectis
.
N.
well
I
trust
better
.
And
which
of
vs
is
begyled
the
ende
shall
shew
.
But
this
here
I
say
that
as
yet
hytherto
,
where
as
ye
spake
of
theyre
intollerable
labour
:
I
am
certefyed
that
they
come
from
it
as
ioyously
as
it
were
from
a
recreacion
.
☞
W.
I
blame
theym
neuer
a
deale
thoughe
they
be
gladde
when
theyr
taske
is
at
an
ende
.
N.
Nay
I
meane
when
theyr
handes
be
full
of
blaynes
and
blysters
,
wyth
achynge
armes
,
theyr
shulders
black
and
blew
by
reason
of
heuy
burthens
:
that
then
they
reioyce
in
suffraunce
.
☞
W.
They
that
so
haue
certifyed
you
I
pray
you
wryte
vnto
them
agayne
,
and
praye
them
to
certefye
you
also
how
many
worketh
wyth
an
euyll
wyll
for
the
onely
lacke
of
lyuynge
/
and
howe
many
ronne
fro
theyr
worke
&
rather
chuse
to
go
stele
&
be
hanged
to
,
rather
than
to
come
to
so
paynfull
worcke
agayne
.
And
by
that
tyme
that
they
haue
certyfyed
you
of
these
two
sortys
:
they
shall
I
warant
you
certefye
of
the
thyrde
tother
sorte
that
are
so
gladde
of
suche
laboure
not
fully
so
many
as
ye
reken
now
.
And
yet
I
thynke
veryly
that
some
suche
are
there
to
.
And
I
wolde
myche
meruayle
ellys
.
N.
why
so
?
☞
W.
For
I
haue
knowen
ere
thys
where
men
haue
been
sore
hurt
in
frays
/
that
they
whych
haue
bene
sorest
wounded
haue
most
reioyced
/
not
in
hys
harmes
but
in
the
praysyngs
of
other
.
N.
who
be
they
that
shuld
prayse
so
these
labourynge
folke
.
☞
W.
Euen
suche
of
theyr
owne
sectys
as
will
not
labour
them selfes
/
whiche
ar
redyer
to
encorage
other
men
vnto
suffraunce
of
deth
for
theyre
opynyons
,
than
to
ieoparde
them self
the
leste
●yppe
of
theyr
ere
.
But
now
to
your
obieccyon
/
that
ye
wold
prestys
,
monkys
,
and
freers
shulde
labour
as
other
temporall
men
do
:
I
holde
it
expedyent
that
many
of
them
shulde
be
better
occupyed
than
they
are
.
Howe
be
it
I
haue
hard
in
Germany
gre●ous
complayntes
&
murmuracions
of
hande
crafty
men
and
artyfycers
agaynste
relygyous
persons
/
whyche
haue
made
them selfes
worldly
,
and
lerned
theyr
occupacyons
.
For
through
theyr
augmentacyon
/
the
proffytable
gaynes
of
occupacyons
was
mynysshed
/
and
the
welth
of
theyr
lyuynge
decayde
,
so
that
many
were
compellyd
to
seke
aduentures
in
straunge
prouincys
for
defaut
of
worke
at
home
.
Also
I
haue
knowen
in
the
cyte
of
Colen
&
in
other
placys
of
the
low
contrey
/
that
relygyous
persones
in
theyr
cloysters
fyndyng
them selfes
with
labour
of
theyr
handes
,
as
spynnyng
,
weyuyng
,
&
makyng
of
lynnen
cloth
/
haue
bene
haynous●y
●playned
vpon
to
the
lordes
and
rulers
/
that
they
toke
away
the
auauntage
and
lyuynge
from
the
pore
comons
&
cytezens
:
wherfore
they
haue
bene
restrayned
from
takynge
of
temporall
peoples
worke
.
N.
By
thys
rekenynge
seldome
ys
a
chaunge
for
the
better
.
But
yet
howe
faye
ye
to
theyre
prouysyon
for
poore
impotent
peple
?
☞
W.
After
my
mynde
they
neuer
went
about
an
acte
that
pretendyde
a
more
godly
purpose
/
or
a
feruenter
zele
of
charytable
compassyon
.
whych
ordynaunce
yf
yt
had
a
progresse
of
contynuaunce
as
yt
had
a
lykelyhode
at
the
begynnynge
:
were
to
be
alowed
and
practysed
of
all
crysten
nacyons
.
But
euery
occasion
wysely
ponderyd
wyth
dew
cyrcumstaunces
/
it
wyll
make
those
that
be
sage
to
stay
at
yt
&
other
lyke
maters
/
takyng
auysement
before
,
lest
they
enterpryse
further
than
they
be
able
to
bryng
vnto
a
lawdable
ende
.
It
is
the
very
properte
of
comon
peple
,
namely
of
these
Almayns
/
that
,
what
,
so
euer
they
be
perswaded
vnto
,
agreable
to
theyr
affeccyons
/
they
shall
be
redy
in
a
sodeyn
gyere
to
accomplysh
:
regardyng
nother
damage
ne
commodyte
,
though
sone
after
they
repent
theym
.
And
lyke
as
the
people
of
Israhell
brought
the
iewellys
of
theyr
wyues
&
chyldern
to
the
makynge
of
the
golden
calfe
:
so
dyd
they
bryng
theyr
iewellys
,
bedys
,
rynges
,
owtches
,
wyth
mony
both
golde
&
syluer
,
to
the
comon
hutches
so
haboundantly
for
thys
prouysyon
/
the
men
dowted
in
some
place
whyther
they
had
poore
folk
suffycyent
to
consume
so
excedynge
heapys
of
ryches
.
But
this
dout
was
sone
made
a
playn
case
:
for
within
a
whyle
after
the
ardente
heat
of
theyr
lyberall
deuocy●
waxyd
cold
.
And
because
they
contynued
not
styll
in
bryngynge
in
theyr
oblacyons
:
the
hutches
and
coffers
were
emptye
ere
men
wyst
yt
.
Then
whyles
yt
was
compassyd
what
way
myghte
be
best
taken
for
the
preseruacyon
of
thys
ordynaunce
,
least
yt
shuld
decaye
,
to
theyr
confufyon
that
began
yt
:
some
gaue
counsell
that
yt
shulde
be
necessary
to
depryue
the
clergye
of
theyr
goodes
,
and
to
dystrybute
theyr
possessions
,
landes
,
and
rentys
amonge
lay
peple
.
And
to
throwe
downe
all
monasteries
&
churches
/
makyng
coyne
of
crosses
,
chalessys
and
other
sacred
iewels
,
for
the
sustē●●cyon
of
the
poore
as
they
allegyd
.
Thys
aduyse
with
ho●e
assent
of
certayne
prynces
and
comonteys
was
approuyd
/
affyrmynge
that
yf
so
infynyte
ryches
were
onys
in
theyr
handys
/
the
reuenewes
of
great
men
shuld
be
so
enlargyd
,
that
they
shulde
nede
to
rayse
no
taxys
nor
lones
of
the
commons
/
but
rather
cease
frome
all
importable
exaccyons
.
In
lyke
maner
by
the
same
polycy
the●
comons
might
grow
vnto
such
welthy
substaunce
:
that
beggers
and
nedy
people
fewe
or
none
shulde
be
founde
among
them
,
whych
ought
to
be
called
a
golden
worlde
or
a
tyme
of
felycyte
.
N.
And
can
it
not
so
to
passe
in
conclusyon
?
☞
W.
No
,
nor
neuer
shall
I
make
you
assuraunce
,
for
the
goodes
ar
wasted
&
no
man
can
tell
how
:
ye
at
thys
houre
the
prynces
and
lordes
of
the
cyties
a●more
hungry
to
pyll
&
pole
then
euer
they
were
.
The
commons
also
in
lesse
welth
,
enduryng
more
greuous
oppressyon
then
euer
they
dyd
,
wythe
no
fewer
myserable
persons
then
they
had
before
/
all
thinges
as
out
of
mesure
scarce
/
eche
complaynynge
to
other
of
theyr
calamyties
infortunate
without
remedy
of
redresse
or
hope
of
a
of
a
better
chaunge
.
N.
Our
lord
forbede
that
yt
shuld
chaunce
so
h●re
.
☞
W.
yet
lacke
there
no●
in
Englond
that
wysh
full
hartely
after
suche
a
ruffelyng
chaunge
/
the
more
parte
suche
as
hope
to
wyn
and
haue
nothynge
to
lese
/
and
yet
some
so
mad
that
haue
of
theyr
owne
,
and
why
the
happely
myghte
pent
it
fyrst
of
all
.
I
let
passe
my
lord
cardynalls
act
in
pullyng
down
&
supp̄ssing
of
religious
places
,
our
lord
assoile
his
soule
.
I
will
wrestle
wyth
no
soulys
:
he
knoweth
by
thys
tyme
whyther
he
dyd
well
or
euyll
.
But
thys
dare
I
be
bolde
to
saye
/
that
the
contreys
where
they
stode
fynde
suche
lacke
of
them
:
that
they
wolde
he
had
let
them
stande
.
And
thynk
you
then
that
there
wold
be
no
lak
founden
yf
the
remanaunt
were
so
serued
to
?
I
wene
men
wold
so
sore
mysse
them
that
many
which
speke
,
agaynst
them
/
wold
sone
labour
hys
owne
handys
to
set
them
vp
agayne
.
N.
In
good
faythe
your
wordes
make
me
so
amasyd
,
that
I
cannot
tell
what
I
may
say
to
the
mater
:
I
se
the
lyuynge
of
the
clergye
is
farre
wyde
from
the
doctrine
of
Cryst
&
example
of
th
appostles
/
●
the
Lutheranes
by
your
saynge
be
in
wors
case
/
both
destitute
of
catholik
faith
&
good
crysten
maners
,
wythout
any
better
lykelyhode
excepte
by
the
meanes
of
a
generall
reformacyon
.
☞
W.
who
shuld
be
the
auctours
of
thys
reformacyon
?
N.
The
pope
&
either
crysten
pryncys
.
☞
W.
I
put
case
that
many
of
them
be
as
wyde
owte
of
the
ryghte
waye
as
the
other
.
N.
That
can
ye
tell
partely
concernyng
thys
popes
holynesse
/
for
ye
were
lately
at
Rome
.
☞
W.
In
very
dede
I
herde
pyteously
of
yt
by
other
mennes
report
,
but
I
sawe
yt
not
:
&
pera●uenture
I
saw
the
lesse
/
because
I
taryed
so
lytell
whyle
there
.
Natwythstandyng
yt
fortuned
me
to
talke
wyth
an
Italyan
/
and
in
our
communycacion
I
spake
as
I
had
hard
,
that
the
pope
and
the
emperour
entendyd
a
reformacyon
.
whye
sayd
he
they
haue
begon
all
redye
.
I
asked
him
where
.
Se
ye
not
quod
he
that
they
haue
destroyed
Lombardye
,
Italye
,
Naples
,
&
also
enpouered
Fraunce
,
to
the
ruynous
decay
of
crystendome
?
Beware
sayde
I
what
ye
speke
.
yes
quod
he
/
for
I
meane
no
dyshonoure
to
theyr
hyghnes
/
for
they
perfourme
the
wyll
and
commaundement
of
god
as
they
of
Syrya
and
Babylone
dyd
in
destroyng
the
euyll
chylderen
of
Israhell
,
to
th
entent
the
good
myght
prospere
in
theyr
placys
.
Mary
Qd
I
that
ys
clene
contrary
here
/
for
the
good
be
destroyed
and
the
euyll
are
encreased
/
so
that
neuer
in
Italye
were
sene
so
many
vagaboundes
,
theues
,
hores
,
and
harlottys
,
as
are
in
thys
present
tyme
.
well
sayde
he
/
yf
the
good
be
rather
destroyed
as
ye
allege
,
and
the
euyll
are
styll
reseruyd
:
yt
ys
a
token
that
they
haue
escaped
wyth
an
easy
scorge
the
dredefull
vengeaunce
of
god
,
whych
remayneth
for
these
the
be
left
behynd
.
Howbeyt
y●
rede
in
storyes
of
the
byble
,
that
the
synfull
world
was
first
destroyed
before
that
ryghteous
,
Noe
,
was
possess●●●●r
of
the
frutefull
yerth
,
bly●●ed
of
god
/
and
the
abomynable
cyteys
of
Sodome
&
Gomor
vterly
subuertyd
ere
vertuous
Lothe
ascendyd
the
mount
of
hys
refuge
.
Also
the
reprobate
people
of
Israhell
were
holly
extyncte
ere
euer
theyre
elect
chyldren
entryd
the
lande
of
promys
.
wherfore
construe
ye
as
ye
please
,
I
feare
me
that
the
reformacyon
of
the
worlde
shall
be
wyth
the
sworde
of
vengeaunce
vppon
the
people
for
theyr
iniquyte
/
consyderyng
the
obduracyon
of
theyr
hartys
,
&
harde
neckyd
stubburnes
/
not
mouyd
at
the
wonderfull
tokens
whych
dayly
pronostycate
the
wrathe
of
god
to
be
at
hande
.
wyth
thys
he
shranke
awaye
&
wolde
tarye
no
longer
.
N.
Peraduentur
he
was
afrayde
to
wade
further
in
the
trothe
.
But
beleue
me
yf
ye
wyl
/
wher
he
spake
of
the
destroynge
of
euyll
people
:
I
wene
yf
Lutheranys
be
such
as
ye
make
them
,
yt
were
the
redyest
waye
for
a
reformacyon
to
kyll
vp
theym
quyte
.
☞
W.
I
wolde
rather
wyshe
them
amendyd
yf
yt
may
be
.
And
as
for
kyllynge
theym
in
some
place
yt
were
no
great
maistry
.
But
then
in
some
other
placys
where
wold
ye
fynde
the
people
to
do
the
execucyon
?
N.
we
shuld
lacke
none
in
Englande
I
warant
yow
/
for
there
be
many
of
the
clargye
that
wolde
be
full
glad
of
yt
,
&
marchauntys
some
,
thoughe
many
be
on
theyr
syde
.
Also
ye
myght
haue
a
great
sorte
of
the
commons
,
and
many
courtyers
,
though
some
of
euery
sorte
fauoure
Luthers
wayes
&
some
great
mennys
seruauntys
bere
men
in
hande
that
theyr
souereyns
support
such
maters
specially
in
tauerns
,
marchauntes
howses
,
&
other
placys
/
where
they
make
them selues
no
small
fooles
when
wyse
men
be
forth
a
dores
.
☞
W.
For
ye
vnderstande
not
what
ye
saye
.
N.
Howe
so
?
☞
W.
For
yf
we
wyll
put
awaye
all
Lutheranes
and
all
suche
open
heresyes
,
we
must
fyrst
putte
awaye
many
other
synnys
whyche
haue
brought
those
heresyes
in
.
For
trow
ye
that
heresyes
the
moost
terryble
plage
of
god
/
cometh
not
through
synne
of
the
peple
prouokynge
hys
ire
and
indygnacyon
/
whereby
he
sendyth
amonge
them
false
prophetes
&
erronyous
teachers
,
prechyng
maters
accordynge
to
theyre
waywarde
appetytes
.
N.
yet
prestys
and
clarkys
are
the
bryngers
vp
of
heresyes
and
the
chefe
maynteyners
of
them
,
by
occasyon
of
popes
,
cardynalles
,
bysshops
,
&
other
prelatys
of
the
clergye
.
☞
W.
I
wyll
neyther
excuse
nor
accuse
neyther
them
nor
other
.
But
I
fere
me
that
as
for
other
synnes
the
clargie
and
the
lay
to
shall
not
nede
to
stryue
therfore
/
but
maye
well
agre
togyther
and
parte
the
stake
betwene
them
.
And
as
for
heresyes
,
thoughe
some
of
the
clergye
comenly
begynne
them
:
yet
yf
we
loke
on
olde
cronycles
wyth
experyence
of
our
own
tyme
,
we
shall
well
fynde
that
there
hathe
not
lckked
some
great
temporal
pryncys
,
nor
a
great
nomber
of
lewd
laye
people
/
to
set
them
forth
&
support
them
.
was
not
the
orygynall
grounde
and
cawse
of
M.
Luthers
heresye
to
do
pleasure
to
hys
prynce
,
and
to
purchase
fauoure
amonge
the
people
.
In
lyke
maner
Oecolam
padius
,
zwynglius
,
Pharellus
,
and
other
mo
folowed
the
same
trace
.
when
prynces
&
comonties
at
first
bent
vppon
affeccyon
agaynst
the
church
,
or
conceyue
any
straunge
purpose
●trary
to
scrypture
:
then
immedyatly
they
fynde
at
hand
suche
lerned
persons
that
can
endeuoure
theyr
braynes
in
approuyng
theyr
lustes
/
makynge
that
whych
ys
vnlawfull
lawfull
,
whych
say
that
good
is
yuell
&
yuell
ys
good
,
callyng
lyghte
darknes
and
darkenes
lyght
.
N.
We
shall
finde
them
among
whych
prech
such
thyngys
as
ye
call
heresye
for
no
such
cause
/
but
preche
it
boldely
before
great
audyence
,
where
they
for
theyr
prechyng
be
brought
in
great
danger
.
☞
W.
Though
they
do
fall
in
harme
,
yet
haue
they
hope
to
wynne
theyr
fauour
/
or
els
why
are
they
so
desyrous
to
haue
so
many
ley
men
present
at
theyr
examynacions
?
N.
They
make
of
it
a
reasonable
cause
for
.ii.
consideracions
One
ys
to
th
yntent
they
myght
not
be
wrongefully
oppressyd
in
corners
:
a nother
is
because
they
wolde
that
people
shulde
bere
wytnes
of
theyr
constancy
in
confessyng
the
trouthe
for
Crystys
sake
.
☞
W.
These
consyderacyons
in
theym
yf
they
were
true
as
they
be
fals
:
were
yet
of
small
efficacite
&
against
the
euangelyke
perfeccion
.
As
towchynge
the
fyrste
,
god
promyseth
yf
hys
seruauntys
be
wrongyd
pryuely
/
he
wyll
reuenge
them
openly
.
And
Cryst
in
the
gospell
exhortyng
vs
to
suffraunce
/
byddeth
hys
dyscyples
to
be
ioyful
in
persecucion
/
sayng
that
happy
are
ye
when
ye
are
belyed
,
euyll
spoken
apon
,
and
extremely
dealte
wythall
for
my
names
sake
.
The
other
apperythe
to
be
an
excuse
of
vaynglory
couetynge
wordly
prays
/
where
as
they
perceyue
that
people
fauourynge
theyr
parte
wyll
interprete
to
theyre
commendacyon
what
so
euer
they
say
,
though
yt
be
agaynst
scripture
/
contrary
to
all
verite
.
Saynt
Peter
wylleth
vs
to
gyue
acounte
of
our
faythe
to
euery
bodye
/
and
that
my
dely
wyth
all
lowlynes
.
we
haue
no
presydent
of
th
appostles
,
that
euer
they
dysdayned
to
answere
before
the
infydele
iuges
,
tyll
the
vulgare
multytude
were
by
them
/
or
that
they
requyred
assystence
of
great
men
to
be
recordes
of
theyre
wordes
.
wherfore
I
meruell
what
conscyence
these
persons
haue
/
whych
are
so
importune
to
be
examyned
in
presence
of
rude
seculers
&
ignoraunt
people
/
when
they
answere
so
dowtfully
that
the
beste
●●ernyd
can
not
well
construe
theyre
meanynge
.
And
in
pryncypall
artycles
where
vppon
dependeth
our
saluacyon
or
dampnacyon
:
some
answer
so
nakydly
with
blynd
shyfts
,
that
they
be
able
to
brynge
vn to
people
in
to
erroure
of
thinges
wherof
they
neuer
doutyd
before
/
vsynge
euer
ouerthwart
speche
and
quaylynge
sentences
of
dowble
vnderstandynge
,
wyth
protestacyons
of
hypocrysye
after
thys
fassion
:
In
good
fayth
I
thynke
there
is
a
purgatorye
,
albeyt
I
can
not
tell
whether
I
may
beleue
yt
or
no.
I
suppose
that
confessyon
made
to
a
preest
,
and
pylgrymagys
may
be
well
done
/
but
I
fynde
them
not
in
scrypture
:
I
beleue
in
these
wordis
of
Cryft
,
thys
is
my
body
/
but
as
concernyng
hys
bodely
presence
in
forme
of
breade
,
to
say
any
thynge
yt
ys
aboue
my
capacyte
/
and
I
dare
not
medle
with
so
dyffuse
maters
.
I
reken
that
I
may
beleue
the
doctours
of
the
church
yf
they
speke
not
agaynst
the
worde
of
god
.
&c.
To
vse
such
ambages
in
weyghtye
causes
,
&
to
put
in
questyon
a
fresshe
the
cases
defyned
by
generall
counsels
,
as
thoughe
we
were
vncertayne
of
our
belefe
&
new
to
begyn
agayn
:
I
repute
yt
no
spyryte
of
trothe
sekynge
goddys
honoure
and
edificacion
of
theyr
neyghbour
.
Nor
I
dout
not
but
at
the
day
of
iugement
,
they
shall
make
a
more
seryous
answere
.
Thys
cōsyderacyon
is
also
as
I
haue
sayde
very
playnly
false
.
For
when
these
siy
shyftes
fayle
them
:
they
shew
no
constancy
of
theyr
vnfaythfull
doctryne
/
but
falsely
forswere
them self
and
say
they
neuer
sayd
so
/
the
hole
audyence
detestyng
theyr
periury
all
saue
onely
theyr
owne
sect
/
whyche
as
for
periury
pardon
eche
other
.
To
speke
of
manyfest
myssliuers
and
open
transgressours
,
whom
may
we
well
exempte
?
consyderynge
howe
prone
and
redy
the
hole
world
is
from
the
moste
to
the
leste
,
to
declyne
and
fall
vnto
euyll
.
Our
fayth
whyche
god
hathe
gyuen
vs
to
bylde
good
workes
vppon
is
waxen
barayne
&
fruteles
.
Charyte
lykewyse
,
wherin
we
shuld
be
tryed
to
be
the
very
dyscyples
of
Cryst
/
is
waxed
colde
through
the
excesse
of
iniquyte
.
Amyable
concorde
wyth
crysten
vnyte
,
whervppon
all
vertue
fastenyth
her
fundacyon
is
fallen
in
ruyne
/
to
the
fre
entresse
of
hatefull
dyscēiō
&
lyberte
of
al
vyces
.
In
euery
state
and
degre
,
the
one
barkyth
at
the
other
/
one
obiectyth
agaynst
a nother
hys
fawtys
/
eche
of
theym
facynge
other
to
be
causes
of
theyr
myseryes
/
&
yet
neuer
a
one
fassyoneth
him selfe
towarde
any
amendement
for
hys
owne
parte
.
N.
By
my
trothe
I
deme
the
people
wold
be
good
ynough
,
yf
they
had
good
heades
.
☞
W.
I
denye
not
the
verely
,
but
the
better
that
the
heades
be
the
better
were
the
body
lyke
to
be
/
and
the
euyll
that
is
in
euyll
heades
descendeth
down
in
to
euery
parte
,
and
maketh
all
the
bodye
the
worse
.
And
yet
surely
yf
the
people
be
euyll
:
the
synne
of
them
causeth
god
sometyme
to
send
them
heades
of
the
same
sute
,
bothe
popes
,
emperours
,
kyngys
,
cardynallys
,
bysshoppes
,
prestys
,
and
curatys
.
For
yt
is
the
synne
of
the
people
as
Iobtestyfyeth
,
that
causeth
god
to
suffer
hypocrytys
sometyme
to
rayne
ouer
theym
.
Hypocrytes
he
calleth
theym
that
represente
the
personages
of
these
estates
,
whose
partes
they
do
playe
for
a
countenaunce
,
and
do
the
contrarye
in
dede
.
And
as
farre
as
I
haue
redde
in
the
byble
/
all
the
whyle
that
the
peple
of
Israhell
were
good
obeyng
goddys
lawys
and
sought
his
honoure
:
god
gaue
theym
gracyous
gouernours
,
vertuous
prestes
,
and
trewe
prophetes
.
But
as
sone
as
they
swaruyd
&
fell
vnto
ydolatry
:
he
sent
them
for
theyre
punyshment
vngracyous
pryntes
,
vycyous
prelatys
,
and
fals
prophetys
/
so
that
no
dyfference
was
betwene
the
people
&
the
prestys
/
nor
the
people
coud
not
ymagyne
so
outragyous
abomynacyons
,
but
princys
and
prestys
bothe
were
redy
to
fortefye
them
in
theyr
vnhappynes
.
N.
yet
yf
ye
remember
well
the
storyes
of
the
byble
/
ye
shall
fynde
that
the
trāsgressyon
of
goddys
law
among
the
peple
/
redownded
fyrst
from
the
heades
by
theyr
pernycyous
occasyon
.
And
as
to
wchynge
fals
prophetes
and
yll
prestes
:
god
hym selfe
greuously
complayneth
apon
them
/
shewyng
how
the
people
are
seducyd
by
them
to
the
pollutynge
of
hys
name
and
vyolacyon
of
hys
lawes
.
whose
enmyous
wyckednes
Ezechiell
,
Hieremye
,
wyth
dyuers
other
ꝓphetes
,
declare
at
length
.
Dyd
not
the
Belyal
preastes
Ophni
&
Phynes
by
theyr
pestylent
example
and
lecherous
lyuynge
corrupte
many
one
/
vppon
whom
god
takynge
vengeaunce
/
they
loste
theyr
lyues
in
batayll
/
and
the
arke
of
god
wherof
they
had
the
cure
taken
by
the
Phylysteys
/
xxx
.
thousande
fyghtynge
men
of
the
Israhelyte
people
were
slayne
in
one
day
.
Lykewyse
the
chyldren
of
Samuell
whyche
were
iuges
of
the
peple
/
not
ensuynge
theyre
fathers
steppes
but
set
apon
couetousnes
,
toke
rewardes
and
peruertyd
iugement
/
by
whose
occasyon
the
people
were
mouyd
to
aske
a
kynge
vnto
theyr
desolacyon
.
Moreouer
the
storye
of
kynge
Saull
is
playn
,
for
whose
pryuate
dysobedyence
the
hole
lande
of
Israhell
smarted
full
sore
.
Kyng
Dauyd
though
he
was
a
blyssed
man
,
yet
brought
vnto
foly
for
to
nomber
his
people
/
they
were
fayne
to
suffer
moste
wofull
plages
for
hys
offence
.
Manye
other
lyke
placys
I
coud
gather
out
of
the
olde
testament
,
were
yt
nat
to
eschew
tedyousnes
/
specyally
of
Hieroboam
,
whom
the
scrypture
testyfyeth
expresly
,
that
he
caused
the
peple
of
Israhell
to
synne
.
Besyde
all
thys
go
to
the
very
experyence
/
and
ye
shall
fynde
that
where
soeuer
the
heade
or
go
uernour
of
an
howse
ys
good
/
the
hole
howsholde
comenlye
shall
be
good
also
.
And
contrary
wyse
yf
they
be
badde
/
the
other
shall
be
as
euyll
/
so
that
I
may
conclude
in
veryfyeng
myne
opynyon
/
that
the
yll
conuersacyon
of
subgectys
procedyth
out
of
the
euyll
example
of
theyr
heades
.
☞
W.
To
begyn
where
as
ye
leaue
/
I
graunt
that
the
vertuous
example
of
the
head
auayleth
moch
to
the
good
order
of
the
members
/
&
the
greater
that
the
auctoryte
ys
,
the
more
strength
yt
hath
in
example
,
eyther
to
profyte
or
to
noy
/
consyderyng
that
amonge
pryuate
persons
the
goodnesse
of
some
one
,
ēducyth
many
other
to
vertue
/
&
contrary
the
lewdnes
of
another
,
bryngeth
many
to
vyce
&
vngracyousnes
.
But
yet
can
not
ye
●clude
apon
thys
,
that
the
euylnes
of
the
people
comyth
fyrste
by
the
example
of
the
heades
/
but
rather
as
I
haue
spoken
before
,
because
the
peple
be
euyll
them selfs
/
therfore
god
sendyth
theym
according
yll
heades
&
gouernours
.
For
ye
must
consyder
that
god
hath
not
made
the
people
for
the
sensuall
pleasure
of
pryncys
,
gouernours
,
or
prelatys
/
but
hath
ordeyned
them
to
that
we
all
and
commodyte
of
the
people
.
ye
haue
in
Exodus
the
thyrde
chapyter
,
that
when
the
peple
of
Israhell
were
in
myserable
thraldome
vnder
kynge
Pharo
:
they
cryed
to
god
for
remedye
/
and
god
prouyded
theym
Moyses
to
be
theyr
delyuerer
/
to
whom
in
gyuyng
his
of●yce
he
sayde
:
The
clamoure
of
the
children
of
Israhell
is
come
vnto
me
and
I
haue
sene
theyr
afflyccyons
how
they
are
oppressyd
of
the
Egypcians
:
therfore
approche
and
I
shall
sende
the
to
belyuer
my
peple
.
ye
,
god
loued
the
peple
so
entyerly
,
that
of
theym
he
chose
bysshoppes
,
prestes
,
and
deakenes
,
to
offer
specyall
sacrefyces
for
the
clensynge
of
theyre
synnes
/
and
to
be
as
meanes
betwene
hym
&
the.
Note
of
whom
also
Moyses
toke
the
noble
&
wyse
men
/
&
made
of
them
prices
,
captayns
and
gouernours
,
for
theyre
polytyke
conseruacion
.
Agreable
to
this
the
storyes
of
Iudicum
make
r●encion
,
that
the
people
of
Israhell
longe
season
after
Iosues
death
obseruyng
goddys
lawes
and
fulfyllyng
hys
commaundementes
prosperyd
in
peace
and
hadde
gracyous
gouernours
.
But
when
they
fel
to
synne
&
ydolatry
:
god
gaue
them
in
to
subieccyon
of
theyr
enemyes
/
and
were
compellyd
whether
they
wolde
or
not
to
serue
hethen
pryncys
and
myscreaunt
ydolaters
/
yet
notwythstandynge
in
myddys
of
theyr
myseryes
,
where
as
wyth
a
repentaunt
hart
they
cryed
to
god
for
socour
,
and
besought
hym
of
mercy
:
he
raysde
vp
among
them selues
certayne
captaynes
at
sondry
tymes
/
as
Othonyell
,
Ayoth
,
Gedeon
,
Sampson
,
and
dyuers
other
/
whyche
delyuered
them
from
all
bondage
/
restorynge
them
agayne
to
theyr
lyberte
.
And
where
as
ye
allege
the
chyldren
of
Helye
to
haue
bene
cawse
of
the
takynge
of
the
arke
and
slawghter
of
the
people
:
I
beleue
verely
that
the
peple
were
then
myscheuously
myndyd
as
they
be
nowe
a
dayes
.
whyche
perceyuyng
that
the
.
ii
.
prestes
that
bare
the
arke
wherby
they
hopyd
of
victory
,
were
slayne
:
they
surmysed
that
the
vengeaunce
for
the
prestes
synnes
was
cawse
why
the
arke
was
taken
and
so
moche
people
destroyed
.
&
vnder
this
blynde
audacyte
they
remayned
styll
impenytent
/
not
aknowlegyng
to
god
theyre
owne
offences
&
ydolatrye
:
whych
apperyth
by
the
returne
agayn
of
the
arke
/
where
aboue
the
nomber
of
.l.
thousande
persons
were
plagyd
with
sodayne
deth
.
Also
it
may
be
verefyed
by
the
wordys
of
Samuell
exhortyng
the
peple
to
returne
vnto
god
wyth
harte
vnfaynyd
/
and
to
caste
owte
all
straunge
goddys
,
preparynge
theyr
hartys
to
the
seruyce
of
god
onely
.
For
when
they
hadde
fastyd
and
done
penaunce
,
not
imputynge
the
fawte
to
other
but
to
them selfs
/
sayng
all
we
good
lorde
haue
synned
agaynst
the
:
god
delyuered
them
from
theyre
enemyes
.
In
lyke
maner
the
mysorder
of
Samuel
lys
sonnes
was
not
so
greatly
the
occasyon
whye
the
people
were
mouyd
to
aske
a
kyng
for
to
reygne
ouer
theym
/
as
was
theyr
owne
dyffydence
toward
goddys
puision
,
obstynate
dysobedyence
,
and
vnquyete
appetyte
of
ydolatrye
/
couetynge
to
be
lyke
other
hethen
nacyons
:
whyche
is
to
be
perceyued
by
the
answere
of
god
vnto
Samuel
thus
sayng
:
Here
the
peoples
voyce
in
all
thynges
that
they
speke
vnto
the
/
they
haue
nott
cast
that
of
but
me
,
least
I
shulde
re●gne
ouer
them
.
They
do
euen
accordyng
to
all
theyr
workes
whyche
they
dyd
in
the
daye
that
I
brought
them
out
of
Egypt
hytherto
.
As
they
haue
forsaken
me
&
seruyd
fals
goddys
/
thus
do
they
also
to
the.
when
Samuell
hadde
shewed
vnto
them
the
dyspleasure
of
god
,
wyth
the
manyfolde
myseryes
and
calamytyes
whyche
they
shulde
suffer
by
the
chaunge
:
yet
wolde
they
not
here
hym
/
but
sayd
that
nedys
they
wold
haue
a
kynge
ouer
them
as
other
people
had
.
Furthermore
ye
afferme
that
the
people
of
Israhel
were
punyshed
for
the
dysobedyent
tra●sgressyon
of
kyng
Saull
.
But
all
thynges
consydered
yt
ys
to
be
thoughte
rather
that
their
wylful
frowardnes
agaynst
god
was
partely
occasyon
of
hys
fall
/
to
th
entent
the
sentence
of
god
spoken
by
the
prophet
myght
be
verefyed
.
For
yf
he
had
bene
an
vpright
prynce
&
had
obserued
goddes
commaundement
:
they
shulde
haue
bene
in
such
felycyte
that
they
wolde
haue
iuged
theyre
pe●ycyon
lawfull
in
demaundyng
a
kynge
contrary
to
goddys
pleasure
.
And
I
dowt
not
but
god
gaue
them
a
kynge
of
dysposycyon
lyke
to
theyre
demeanoure
/
so
that
when
he
transgressyd
goddys
precept
in
dede
/
they
dyd
the
same
,
at
the
laste
in
wyll
&
consent
/
wherby
they
deseruyd
to
be
punysshed
wyth
hym
.
For
god
neuer
taketh
vengeaunce
apon
ony
people
but
onely
for
theyre
synne
/
whyche
af●er
dyuers
admonycions
whyles
they
wyll
not
amende
/
euen
as
he
gyueth
to
the
good
people
gracyous
heades
and
prynces
,
furtheryng
them
in
his
fauour
to
theyr
●fort
:
so
sendeth
he
to
the
euyll
wyckyd
heades
&
rulers
,
prouoking
his
wrath
to
theyr
desolacion
.
And
no
meruell
thoughe
Saull
faryd
the
worse
for
hys
people
/
wher
as
Moyses
the
most
faythfull
seruaunte
of
god
was
partely
by
their
frowardnes
debarred
from
the
pleasaunt
lande
of
behest
.
As
for
kyng
dauyd
,
it
is
playn
that
god
dyspleasyd
wyth
the
chyldern
of
Israhell
for
theyr
synnes
:
ꝑmyttyd
Sathan
to
incyte
hym
for
to
nomber
hys
people
,
wherfore
they
were
bothe
punysshed
.
And
though
scrypture
expressely
saythe
that
Hie
●oboā
causyd
the
peple
to
synne
:
yet
were
they
as
mich
fauty
as
he
/
saue
that
because
they
commytted
theyre
ydolatry
vnder
hys
supportacyon
,
he
bare
the
name
as
pryncypall
auctor
:
as
we
se
the
captay
as
of
hostes
in
warre
tyme
thoughe
some
of
them
do
sometyme
as
lytell
or
lesse
than
many
a
poore
souldyer
in
hys
armye
whose
acte
is
nothynge
spoken
of
/
yet
all
the
fame
and
honour
of
the
vyctory
rebowndyth
euer
vnto
them
.
whych
is
apartely
prouyd
by
the
oracyon
of
king
Abya
Roboams
sone
/
laynge
to
the
peoples
charge
that
they
forsoke
god
&
made
them
golden
calues
/
expulsyng
the
prestes
&
deakenes
of
goddys
ordynaunce
,
and
instytutynge
other
after
the
order
of
hethen
ydolaters
.
wherto
agreeth
in
defence
of
myne
opynion
,
the
generall
confessyon
of
the
people
wyth
theyre
vnyuersall
submyssyon
in
knowlege
of
theyr
trespaces
,
recyted
in
sondry
placys
of
scrypture
after
thys
for
me
:
we
haue
synned
wyth
our
forefathers
/
we
haue
done
wyckedly
,
&
haue
commytted
iniquyre
/
all
we
haue
transgressyd
thy
commaundementys
.
And
surely
as
the
worlde
is
nowe
crokedly
enclyned
to
malyce
:
yf
god
sente
heades
and
pryncys
accordyng
to
the
deuelys●he
appetytes
of
mych
peple
/
the
welth
of
this
regyon
wold
be
sone
subuerted
&
euerye
state
broughte
to
confusyon
,
albeit
they
otherwyse
coloure
yt
and
make
as
though
they
ment
non
harme
,
but
rather
mych
deuocyon
/
&
that
the
vnlerned
wolde
haue
the
scrypture
in
to
theyre
handys
for
none
other
cause
but
onely
to
preche
secretly
to
them selfe
for
lacke
of
good
preachours
abrode
.
But
then
in
dede
y●
apperyth
that
they
preach
to
themself
and
theyr
neyghbours
to
,
many
an
horryble
horosye
,
and
abuse
the
scrypture
to
the
colorable
defence
of
the
same
.
And
then
are
they
also
to
,
all
Tyndals
bokys
/
whych
for
the
manyfolde
mortall
heresyes
conteyned
within
the
same
openly
condempnyd
and
forbeden
/
they
are
I
saye
yet
vnto
those
bokes
so
sore
affeccionate
,
that
neyther
the
condempnacyon
of
them
by
the
clergy
,
nor
the
forbedyng
of
them
by
the
kyngys
hyghnes
with
his
open
proclamacyons
vppon
great
paynes
/
nor
the
daunger
of
open
shame
,
nor
parell
of
paynfull
deth
/
can
cast
them
out
of
some
fond
folkis
handes
,
and
that
folke
of
euery
sorte
.
Howe
thynke
ye
then
these
folke
wold
haue
bene
stomaked
,
&
how
many
mo
wold
haue
blustred
,
owt
with
them
/
yf
the
mayntenaunce
of
the
prynces
and
the
states
of
the
reame
(
whych
our
lorde
defende
)
had
bene
vppon
theyre
syde
.
And
where
abowt
wolde
they
then
haue
gone
?
abowte
no
great
good
ye
maye
be
sure
.
Se
ye
not
the
vyllayne
beggers
and
valyaunt
vagaboundes
,
whom
god
plageth
with
pouerte
and
myserye
for
theyr
abomynable
lyuynge
/
dysposed
to
no
goodnes
,
howe
hartely
they
wysshe
for
a
ruffelynge
daye
.
Beholde
euery
state
all
moste
in
euery
crysten
realme
,
as
husband
men
,
artyfycers
,
marchaunts
,
courtyers
,
wyth
all
other
degrees
as
well
spyrituall
as
temporall
/
&
I
fere
me
that
ye
shall
saye
,
but
yf
god
of
hys
goodnes
amende
vs
the
soner
/
there
shall
come
to
passe
amonge
vs
the
ferefull
iugement
of
god
spoken
by
the
prophete
O
see
,
to
the
people
of
Israhell
and
inhabyters
of
the
lande
:
There
is
no
trothe
,
no
mercye
,
nor
scyence
of
god
in
the
yerth
.
Cursynge
&
lyenge
,
manslaughter
,
theft
,
and
aduowtrye
hathe
ouerf●owen
/
&
bloode
hathe
towchyd
bloode
:
for
the
which
the
yerth
shall
wayle
,
and
euery
inhabyter
in
yt
shall
be
feeblyd
.
And
thys
as
I
haue
sayde
not
one
contrey
fawty
&
a nother
fawtles
,
one
estate
fowle
and
deformed
and
another
pure
&
clene
,
the
spyrytualtye
synfull
and
the
temporaltye
set
all
on
vertue
,
the
heades
&
rulers
culpable
&
the
people
owt
of
blame
,
nor
that
ony
estate
maye
laye
the
hole
weyght
of
goddes
wrath
vnto
the
other
and
therof
discharge
them selfe
/
but
eche
of
them
ys
cause
both
of
theyr
own
harme
and
other
folkys
to
.
And
the
people
are
nothynge
lesse
fawty
prouokynge
the
wrathe
of
god
,
than
theyre
heades
or
gouernoures
/
nor
one
state
partyculerly
cawse
of
anothers
calamyte
.
But
all
we
togyther
haue
synned
&
haue
deseruyd
the
vengeaunce
of
god
,
whyche
hangyth
before
our
eyes
redy
to
fall
ere
we
be
aware
.
N.
In
thys
poynte
ye
haue
ryght
well
satysfyed
my
mynde
:
but
what
remedye
now
of
reconcylyacyon
agayne
to
god
?
☞
W.
Forsothe
I
knowe
none
but
onely
penaunce
.
I
saye
not
repentyng
onely
as
Luther
and
Tyndall
and
these
new
folkes
call
yt
/
which
wolde
begyle
vs
and
make
vs
wene
that
we
nede
no
more
but
onely
repent
and
do
no
penaunce
at
all
/
tellyng
vs
that
Crystys
passyon
shall
stand
in
stede
of
all
our
penaunce
,
though
we
do
neuer
so
euill
and
lyue
neuer
so
longe
.
wyth
thys
false
doctryne
they
dryue
many
a
soule
to
the
deuyll
/
makynge
theym
neglygente
and
take
lytell
care
or
sorowe
for
theyre
synne
/
and
so
myche
the
more
rechelesse
in
fallynge
to
synne
agayne
.
But
I
speke
of
penaunce
as
yt
unplyeth
both
repentaunce
of
our
synnes
past
/
&
the
sacrament
of
penaunce
,
wyth
care
&
sorow
and
bodely
payn
&
afflyccyon
taken
for
our
syn
,
wyth
prayer
,
almouse
,
&
other
good
workys
to
purchase
the
more
grace
/
&
that
we
shuld
wyth
recourse
to
confessyon
&
the
sacrament
of
penaunce
,
dylygently
prepare
our selues
in
folowing
the
example
of
the
Nynyuytes●
:
whyche
at
the
preachynge
of
the
prophete
Ionas
,
repentyd
wyth
ernest
purpose
of
amendynge
theyr
lyues
/
and
dyd
penaunce
in
deede
,
in
fastynge
and
prayer
,
humblynge
theyre
sowles
frome
the
moste
to
the
least
vnto
the
mercy
of
god
.
N.
wolde
our
lorde
that
we
had
such
a
ꝓphete
sent
among
vs
to
exhorte
vs
vnto
penaunce
as
the
prophete
Ionas
was
to
theym
.
☞
W.
That
were
lyke
to
the
request
of
the
ryche
gluttone
in
hell
of
whom
the
gospell
telleth
/
whych
desyred
that
Lazare
myghte
besente
to
warne
hys
brethern
:
to
whom
yt
was
answeryd
,
that
hauynge
Moyses
&
the
prophetes
,
they
shuld
gyue
credence
to
theym
.
wherfore
seynge
that
we
haue
holy
scrypture
which
expressyth
the
rightwysnes
of
god
/
declaring
howe
our
forefathers
were
punysshed
for
theyr
synnes
:
yf
we
refuse
to
be
warnyd
by
theyre
admonycyon
,
truely
we
wolde
be
as
neglygent
to
amende
,
yf
Ionas
raysed
from
death
to
lyfe
shulde
preache
vnto
vs
.
For
we
haue
saynt
Iohum
baptyst
a
greater
prohete
than
Ionas
was
cryenge
to
all
synners
:
Do
ye
worthy
frutes
of
penaunce
:
of
whom
Cryste
wytnessyth
that
there
ys
none
greater
than
he
amonge
the
chyldren
of
women
.
Also
oure
saue
our
Cryste
hym self
,
of
whom
saynt
Ihon
restyfyed
that
he
was
vnworthy
to
lose
his
shoo
latchet
:
preachyd
penaunce
saynge
:
Do
ye
penaunce
,
the
kyngdome
of
heuyn
is
at
hande
.
And
in
another
place
of
the
gospell
he
sayth
:
yf
ye
do
not
penaunce
ye
shall
all
perysshe
.
And
saynte
Peter
his
vycare
here
in
yerth
,
vppon
whom
and
whose
faythfull
confessyon
he
promysed
to
bylde
hys
church
:
preachyd
lykewyse
in
hys
fyrste
sermone
sayng
:
Do
ye
penaunce
and
be
conuertyd
to
god
,
that
youre
synnys
maye
be
done
awaye
.
Also
saynt
poule
the
chose
vessell
of
god
,
preached
fyrst
of
all
to
them
of
Damasco
,
that
they
shuld
be
penytent
and
turne
to
god
/
ꝑfourmynge
the
due
warkes
of
penaunce
.
Confyrmynge
the
same
when
Cryst
apperyd
vnto
the
.ii.
dyscyples
iorneing
to
Emaus
:
he
sayd
that
after
his
death
and
resurreccyon
yt
behouyd
/
penaunce
to
be
preachyd
in
hys
name
and
remyssyon
of
synnes
:
for
why
the
cause
of
his
comynge
was
not
to
call
ryghteous
folk
but
synners
vnto
penaunce
.
And
the
aungellys
of
heuyn
reioyced
not
so
greatly
in
nynty
&
nyne
iuste
persons
,
as
vppon
one
synner
doyng
penaunce
.
As
concernyng
the
olde
testament
/
god
hym selfe
promyseth
in
dyuers
placys
,
that
a
synner
shall
be
forgyuen
hys
synnes
when
so
euer
he
wyll
do
penance
.
wherfore
seing
we
haue
so
euydent
exhortacyons
of
scrypture
mouynge
vs
to
penaunce
,
and
manyfolde
warnynges
to
correcte
our
lyues
through
the
the
pacyent
suffraunce
of
god
:
happy
ar
we
yet
,
yf
now
at
last
ere
that
yt
be
to
late
me
cowde
faythfully
say
wyth
Iobe
perfourming
the
dede
:
lord
we
haue
hard
the
wyth
oure
eares
,
&
therfore
we
reprehende
our selfes
&
do
penaunce
.
N.
yet
wote
I
not
well
what
ye
call
penaunce
.
☞
W.
I
haue
onys
told
you
&
yet
I
tell
you
agayn
I
call
penaunce
a
chaunge
of
our
lyfe
in
castyng
of
the
synfull
old
man
with
hys
dedys
,
and
doynge
on
a
new
man
of
vertuous
conuetsacyon
/
whiche
by
fayth
,
hope
,
and
charyte
,
and
the
good
workes
that
come
of
them
/
as
prayer
almouse
,
sorow
for
hys
synne
,
and
payne
gladly
taken
and
susteyned
for
the
same
/
ys
renewed
in
to
the
knowledge
and
fauoure
of
god
,
accordynge
to
hys
ymage
that
made
hym
.
N.
how
shuld
laye
men
come
to
thys
knowlege
when
the
gospell
ys
lockyd
fro
them
.
☞
W.
The
gospell
of
Cryste
whyche
ys
goddes
worde
is
free
,
and
can
not
be
bounde
nor
kepte
from
any
Crysten
man
.
N.
By
saynt
Marye
for
all
that
saye
people
maye
not
be
suffred
to
haue
the
newe
testament
men
glysshe
,
whyche
I
call
the
gospell
.
☞
W.
O
ye
meane
Tyndals
gospell
.
N.
In
dede
though
Tyndall
was
the
translatour
/
yt
ys
the
worde
of
god
and
the
verye
same
testament
whyche
ye
haue
in
latyn
of
the
euangelystes
puttynge
forth
.
☞
W.
yet
lernyd
men
and
good
men
haue
founden
suche
fawtys
in
hys
corrupt
translacion
:
that
yt
ys
for
the
same
well
&
lawfully
forbeden
.
N.
yf
they
be
good
men
as
ye
saye
that
haue
founde
yt
fauty
:
I
shuld
reken
them
better
a
great
deale
/
whych
wold
amende
it
.
☞
W.
Though
yt
were
amendyd
&
suffycyently
correctyd
:
yet
wyll
I
not
say
that
yt
ys
expedyent
for
lay
people
to
haue
yt
consyderyng
the
tyme
as
yt
ys
nowe
.
N.
whye
ye
sayd
that
the
gospell
maye
not
be
kept
from
crysten
men
.
☞
W.
No
more
yt
maye
though
yt
be
restrayned
frome
the
laye
people
in
theyr
vulgare
tonge
.
For
the
worde
of
god
whyche
ys
the
worde
of
faythe
as
scrypture
sayth
/
is
nere
the
in
thy
mouth
&
in
thy
harte
to
th
entent
thou
mayste
do
yt
.
N.
Than
I
praye
you
where
saynt
Poule
sayth
that
fayth
comyth
by
herynge
,
and
herynge
comyth
by
the
worde
of
god
:
how
can
we
haue
yt
wythout
prechynge
or
informacyon
of
yt
by
redynge
of
scrypture
.
☞
W.
Outwarde
prechyng
and
lyterall
redyng
of
scrypture
are
necessary
meanes
to
attayne
vnto
the
knowlege
of
the
spyryte
.
N.
wherfore
then
ys
the
gospell
wythholden
frome
the
laye
people
?
☞
W.
I
sayd
they
be
two
thynges
necessary
/
but
I
sayd
not
that
bothe
twayne
be
to
euery
man
necessary
.
But
yt
is
necessary
that
euery
man
haue
the
tone
or
the
tother
,
and
so
haue
they
:
for
they
haue
the
worde
of
god
prechid
&
expowned
vnto
th●
.
N.
ye
as
the
prestes
lyst
wythe
false
gloses
.
☞
W.
wyth
the
same
gloses
that
the
olde
holy
doctours
&
sayntys
haue
made
/
other
maner
of
men
than
Luther
&
Tyndale
whych
now
corrupt
the
trewth
wyth
theyr
false
gloses
.
N.
But
why
shuld
not
the
comen
peple
haue
the
scrypture
them self
in
theyr
awn
mother
tong
?
☞
W
Because
of
theyr
abuse
&
makyng
of
theyr
awne
glosys
,
&
many
also
for
theyr
vnworthynes
,
accordynge
to
Crystes
commaundement
forbeddynge
to
cast
per●es
before
swyne
,
or
to
gyue
holy
thyngis
to
dogges
.
Dyd
not
saynt
Paule
forbede
women
to
speake
the
worde
of
god
in
congregacyons
,
for
the
auoydyng
of
abuse
and
dysorder
?
Also
dyd
not
he
and
Batnabas
forsake
prechyng
to
the
iewes
because
of
theyr
vnworthynes
?
N.
That
is
not
a
lyke
case
:
for
the
text
is
playn
that
the
iewes
wylfully
resystyd
the
worde
of
god
,
and
wolde
not
receyue
yt
.
But
these
people
are
so
desyrous
/
that
they
putte
theym selfes
in
no
small
ieopardye
many
tymes
for
the
hauyng
of
yt
.
☞
W.
I
graunt
there
be
some
which
of
a
good
mynde
are
desyrous
to
haue
the
gospell
in
theyr
mother
tonge
,
for
the
erudycion
&
●fort
of
theyr
soules
.
But
they
that
be
suche
good
folk
may
be
wel
&
sufficiently
fed
with
the
gospell
preched
/
&
so
wyll
they
rather
chese
to
be
than
to
haue
the
scrypture
ronne
in
euery
rasshe
bodyes
hande
,
that
wold
abuse
it
to
their
owne
harme
and
other
menys
to
.
For
well
ye
wot
many
ther
he
,
and
as
yt
apperethe
in
Almayn
where
they
haue
the
scripture
tra●slated
all
redy
/
the
more
parte
and
farre
the
greater
multytude
,
are
not
lesse
vnworthy
in
receyuynge
yt
,
than
were
the
iewes
in
the
wylfull
resystaunce
of
Crystes
gospell
▪
whych
couet
it
onely
for
the
lybertye
to
be
fre
from
the
excercyse
of
penaunce
and
doyng
of
good
workes
,
to
rayle
and
iest
of
other
mennes
fawtes
wythout
any
correccion
of
theyr
own
synfull
lyues
/
nothyng
conformable
to
the
vertew
of
the
gospell
,
whereof
to
bable
many
wordes
they
are
not
dombe
.
Mark
it
there
substauncyally
in
cyties
and
townes
where
ye
se
the
people
most
ryfest
&
moste
busye
to
prate
of
the
gospell
/
whether
they
be
or
not
as
gret
vsurers
,
dysceyuers
of
theyre
neybours
,
blasphemous
sweters
,
euyll
spekers
,
and
gyuen
to
all
vyces
as
depely
as
euer
they
were
.
Thys
I
am
sure
of
and
dare
boldely
afferme
/
that
sythe
the
tyme
of
thys
new
cōtēryous
lernyng
,
the
drede
of
god
ys
gretely
quenched
,
and
charytable
compassyon
sore
ababated
.
Shall
ye
not
se
there
a
cock
braynyd
courtyer
that
hath
no
more
faythe
than
a
Turk
,
&
lesse
crysten
maners
than
a
Pagane
,
with
lordely
countenaunce
&
knauysh
condycyons
/
which
takyng
the
name
of
god
in
bayn
,
shall
vnreuerently
alledge
the
gospell
with
scoffyng
and
scornynge
in
reprehensyon
of
the
clargye
:
where
as
hys
owne
lewd
lyuynge
is
so
vnthryfty
,
that
ye
can
not
aspye
one
good
poynt
in
hym
,
except
yt
be
apon
hys
hosen
/
nor
a
nynche
of
honesty
besyde
his
apparayle
nor
scantly
theron
neyther
,
beyng
all
to
hackyd
&
iaggyd
,
wyth
dowble
weapen
redy
to
fyght
,
and
syngle
wyt
busy
to
brawle
and
chyde
/
more
lyke
a
furyous
tormentour
of
Herode
,
than
a
pacyent
dysciple
of
Cryst
Shal
ye
not
also
se
there
a
marchaunt
pera●enture
made
a
gentyll
man
by
promocion
,
ere
euer
that
he
had
a
good
yemans
cond●cyōs
:
whych
gettynge
hys
chefe
substaunce
as
many
do
there
by
vsury
/
false
dysceyte
of
trewe
people
,
and
other
wrongfull
wayes
/
wyll
take
apon
hym
to
preache
the
gospell
agaynste
the
auaryce
of
relygyous
persones
/
how
they
hauyng
theyr
bare
necessary
foode
,
ought
to
parte
the
resydue
of
theyr
gooddes
wyth
pore
peple
:
where
as
he
hym selfe
hath
thousandes
lyenge
by
hym
in
store
vnoccupyed
,
and
wyll
nother
help
his
poore
neyghbour
nor
scarcely
gyue
a
galy
halpeny
to
a
nedy
creature
in
extreme
necessyte
.
And
at
theyr
belly
festing
days
,
amonge
such
of
theyr
affynyte
which
are
not
so
wyse
nor
well
lernyd
as
they
wolde
be
sene
/
yf
yt
chaunce
them
to
haue
in
companye
some
symple
preste
:
yt
ys
a
wonder
to
here
how
he
ys
apposed
/
&
after
that
theyre
spyrytes
be
a
lytell
kyndled
in
glotony
,
howe
they
lasshe
out
the
gospell
.
Than
begynneth
one
or
a nother
wyth
hys
potycarye
formalyte
and
holy
daye
grauyte
/
to
moue
some
subtyle
questyon
,
sayng
:
mayster
person
howe
say
ye
to
suche
a
texte
of
Poule
?
And
yf
the
preste
be
ignoraunt
for
lacke
of
lernynge
,
or
makyth
not
an
answere
satysfyenge
hys
mynde
:
he
ys
mockyd
and
iestyd
apon
wyth
scornefull
de●ysyon
.
Then
begyn
they
to
canuasse
the
scrypture
amonge
theym
,
wyth
fyllynge
the
cuppes
&
ioly
gentyl
chere
.
And
by
the
tyme
they
haue
eaten
more
than
ynoughe
,
and
haue
dronken
to
moch
:
they
be
redy
to
wade
forth
in
the
depe
mysteryes
of
scrypture
/
wyllynge
to
be
teachers
of
thynges
wherof
they
vnderstande
not
what
they
speke
nor
what
they
afferme
.
Then
are
they
full
armyd
to
talke
of
abstynence
and
sobr●
dyet
of
th
appostles
:
their
table
beynge
furnysshed
wyth
sumptuous
dysshes
and
exquysyte
deyntyes
.
And
where
as
theyr
cuppbordes
be
ryally
garnysshed
with
costely
plate
,
and
the
tables
full
of
cuppes
and
peces
of
syluer
and
golde
:
than
make
they
exclamacyons
against
the
rych
iewellys
of
chyrches
,
as
crosses
and
chalyses
/
sayng
that
better
it
were
to
make
money
of
them
and
to
be
dystributyd
vnto
pore
peple
,
than
they
shulde
perysshe
for
lacke
of
socoure
▪
Lykewyse
when
they
be
seruyd
at
theyr
solempnytyes
,
wyth
counterfeyted
curtesyes
,
in
bowynge
the
kne
,
&
valyng
the
bonet
,
hauyng
sewers
and
and
karuers
after
a
moste
stately
maner
of
seruyce
,
wherin
yf
the
offycers
fayle
neuer
so
lytell
though
yt
be
but
the
settynge
of
a
sawcer
amysse
they
shall
be
rebukyd
:
yet
theyr
peuy●h
pacyence
can
not
brooke
the
honeste
ceremonyes
of
the
churche
to
be
lawdably
done
/
callynge
theym
folysshe
fantasyes
&
inuencyons
of
ydyotes
.
And
though
some
of
these
new
gospellers
occupye
trewelye
and
iustly
wyth
theyre
neyghbours
in
face
of
the
worlde
,
be
hauynge
them selfes
charytably
:
yet
are
they
very
few
in
comparyson
of
the
other
,
whyche
be
raylers
&
gesters
,
vycyous
lyuers
&
fals
hypocrytes
wyth
owt
ony
conscyence
.
N.
As
for
hypocrytes
I
thynke
ye
myght
fynde
soner
amongere
lygyous
persons
.
☞
W.
wyll
ye
beleue
me
.
I
haue
walkyd
a
great
parte
through
owte
all
the
prouynces
of
crystendome
,
and
haue
sene
and
marcked
the
state
of
relygyous
persons
of
dyuers
orders
:
yet
sawe
I
neuer
amonge
them
suche
colouryd
hypocrysye
,
so
flesshely
lybertye
abusyd
,
vnder
the
pretence
of
fayned
holynes
/
as
amonge
many
of
these
late
inuentyd
faccyons
.
And
I
certyfye
yow
that
ye
maye
fynde
mo
dyuers
sectys
of
erronyous
opynyons
among
them
in
one
cyte
beyonde
the
se
:
than
be
sondrye
orders
of
religyous
peple
in
all
Englonde
.
N.
Suppose
ye
the
gospell
to
be
in
faute
of
thys
?
☞
W.
Naye
/
but
the
abuse
of
the
people
hauyng
yt
in
theyr
vulgare
language
:
for
whome
yt
were
better
to
receyue
yt
by
the
mynystracyon
of
faythfull
preachers
,
than
vnworthely
to
take
it
them selfs
.
we
haue
in
the
gospell
that
oure
sauyour
Cryst
tedynge
the
nomber
of
.v.
thousand
men
besyde
women
and
chyldren
/
fyrst
gyuyng
thankys
to
his
father
he
blyssed
the
breade
,
brake
yt
&
gaue
yt
to
hys
dyscyples
,
and
they
dystrybutyd
yt
to
the
company
/
and
so
they
dyd
eate
and
were
sacyate
.
N.
Syr
accordyng
to
thys
the
peple
shuld
holde
them
very
well
content
,
yf
so
be
they
had
faythfull
prechers
to
mynyster
the
worde
of
god
vnto
them
.
But
I
put
case
they
haue
none
,
or
ellys
that
theyr
peachers
be
suche
as
the
ꝓphete
complayneth
on
/
whych
preache
the
vysyon
of
theyr
hart●
&
not
of
the
mouth
of
god
:
seking
also
theyr
owne
worldly
proffyte
,
and
not
the
gostly
confort
of
theyr
cures
.
☞
W.
I
beleue
that
god
hath
not
lefte
his
chyrch
destytute
of
faythfull
preachers
/
wyth
the
whych
he
hath
promnysed
to
be
contynually
present
vnto
the
worldys
ende
.
How
be
yt
the
fewer
that
they
be
/
the
more
fawte
is
to
be
imputed
vnto
the
peple
,
becawse
they
aske
not
worthely
of
god
trewe
preachers
.
For
the
gospell
sheweth
that
the
people
came
fyrst
to
Cryst
/
and
he
perceyuyng
them
was
mouyd
wyth
compassyon
vppon
theym
,
becawse
they
were
as
sheepe
hauynge
no
hearde
/
and
so
feadynge
theyr
sowles
spyrytually
,
afterwarde
he
dyd
repaste
theyre
bodyes
wyth
corporall
foode
.
wherfore
yf
they
in
lyke
maner
approche
vnto
Cryste
(
in
whose
name
what
so
euer
is
desyred
of
the
father
shall
be
grauntyd
)
he
wyll
also
here
gracyously
theyr
petycyon
:
for
the
hande
of
god
is
not
abreuyatt
nowe
/
nor
hys
power
otherwyse
mynysshed
than
yt
was
at
that
tyme
.
N.
yet
am
not
I
so
satysfyed
wyth
all
the
reasons
that
ye
haue
made
/
but
I
thynke
styll
that
yt
were
lawfull
for
laye
people
to
haue
the
new
testament
in
Englysshe
:
&
perauenture
wyth
a
lytell
leyser
I
cowd
lay
suche
scrypture
for
yt
/
that
scant
ye
shuld
be
able
to
obiecte
ony
contradyecyon
.
☞
W.
ye
shall
haue
leyser
ynowgh
.
But
in
the
meane
tyme
thys
ye
must
consyder
that
our
question
is
not
whyther
it
be
lawfull
to
let
them
haue
yt
/
but
whyther
yt
be
vnlawfull
to
kepe
them
from
it
/
and
why
ther
of
the
twayn
is
more
mete
and
more
expedyent
,
specyally
for
the
tyme
that
nowe
ys
the
peple
beynge
dysposed
as
they
now
be
/
and
after
suche
ensample
as
we
see
before
oure
iyen
,
with
suche
fruyte
as
we
fynde
growen
therof
in
Almayne
all
redy
and
in
many
placys
euyn
here
at
home
also
.
But
yf
euer
the
tyme
come
as
I
praye
god
yt
may
/
in
whyche
the
people
shall
be
so
good
and
so
godly
dysposed
that
an
englysshe
byble
shuld
do
good
in
theyr
handes
:
yet
myght
Tyndals
translacyon
in
no
wyse
be
suffered
.
N.
well
I
shall
bethynke
me
tyll
we
mete
agayne
/
and
then
wyll
I
be
so
bolde
also
to
take
Tyndals
parte
in
defence
of
hys
translacyon
and
other
bokys
which
he
hath
put
forth
in
englysshe
,
allegyng
the
best
that
I
can
for
theyr
alowance
:
to
th
entent
I
maye
see
what
stronge
reasons
ye
can
brynge
to
confute
them
.
☞
W.
Ther
wyth
am
I
ryghte
well
pleasyd
/
and
I
trust
with
goddes
help
to
answer
you
so
effectuously
that
ye
shall
not
counte
the
tyme
passed
in
vayne
.
N.
Than
fare
ye
well
tyll
a nother
season
.
☞
W.
Oure
lorde
be
wyth
yow
.
¶
Finis
.