Nicholas
.
Wyllyam
.
NOw
welcom
good
brother
frōparties
of
beyonde
the
sea
.
We
haue
sore
longed
for
your
safe
retourne
,
hopynge
to
heare
some
newes
from
oure
Euangelyke
brotherne
of
Germanye
,
and
in
what
maner
the
Gospell
doeth
prosper
there
and
go
forward
.
W.
Syr
I
thanke
you
for
your
welcommynge
.
Howbeit
concerynge
your
desyre
,
to
be
certyfied
of
them
whom
ye
call
euangelyke
bretherne
:
I
assure
you
vnfaynynglye
that
I
lyke
theyr
maner
euerye
daye
worse
&
worse
.
N.
What
haue
ye
so
sodenly
changed
your
mynd
,
and
begynne
nowe
to
fall
from
the
Gospell
forsakyng
Goddes
worde
?
W.
Truelye
I
haue
chaunged
my
mynde
from
exrours
and
wronge
opinions
,
but
neuer
entendynge
to
renye
Goddes
worde
or
Christes
gospell
:
whereof
as
farre
as
I
can
perceaue
they
be
destitute
and
muche
wyde
.
N.
To
proue
that
it
were
impossible
,
seyng
ye
can
not
denye
but
that
they
haue
Chrystes
Gospell
in
theyr
vulgar
speche
imprented
,
fre
for
euery
body
to
loke
vpon
,
with
contynuall
exercyse
of
euangelyke
preachynge
of
Goddes
worde
.
W.
In
verye
dede
they
haue
the
exteriour
letter
,
with
some
outwarde
apparaunce
of
zeale
towarde
it
.
But
for
all
that
as
towchynge
an
euangelyke
lyfe
or
a
christen
conuersation
,
with
faythfull
fruytes
behoueable
to
the
same
:
they
be
neuer
a
deale
nerer
in
effecte
than
were
the
Jewes
,
whyche
woulde
haue
made
Christe
theyr
kynge
,
not
for
anye
syncere
loue
that
they
had
to
folowe
hym
in
vertuous
lyuinge
,
or
for
reuerence
of
hys
godly
worde
,
but
onelye
in
that
they
thought
he
would
haue
satisfied
their
carnall
appetytes
,
and
seditious
affections
:
wherof
to
be
auctoure
he
was
afterwarde
wrongfully
suspect
,
euen
as
we
see
now
a
dayes
hys
gospell
euyll
spoken
vpon
thorowe
the
sclaunderouse
be
haue
oure
,
&
wycked
demeanour
of
them
,
whom
in
contempt
of
good
people
,
ye
call
euangelike
&
Christen
brethren
,
auauncynge
them
selues
to
be
onelye
the
trewe
folowers
and
obseruers
of
Christes
gospell
,
where
as
theyr
lyuinge
manifestly
repugneth
.
So
that
after
my
iudgemente
the
cheife
captaynes
of
them
may
be
lykened
to
Theudas
&
Judas
.
Act.
v.
which
vnder
a
colour
of
Messias
comynge
the
very
sauiour
and
redemer
from
all
bondage
,
whose
offyce
wrongfully
vsurpynge
by
false
promyses
of
lybertye
,
peruerted
much
people
of
the
Jewes
for
to
folowe
them
,
to
theyr
vtter
vndoyng
and
finall
destruction
.
N.
These
sedytious
personnes
to
applye
vnto
Martyn
Luther
,
and
his
folowers
,
is
both
agaynste
the
treuth
&
witnes
of
your
owne
conscience
yf
ye
duely
examyne
it
.
For
it
is
playne
that
thys
Theudas
and
Judas
,
of
a
presumptious
affection
and
vnquyetnes
of
mynde
,
wythoute
auctorytie
of
Goddes
worde
or
preferremente
of
hys
honoure
,
sedycyously
moued
the
people
to
folow
them
&
not
God
:
where
as
Martyn
Luther
with
such
other
euangelike
preachers
,
auaunce
not
presumptuouselye
them selues
but
god
onely
,
nother
perswade
the
people
to
folowe
them
but
Christe
:
whose
Gospell
longe
season
obscured
by
mennes
tradicions
,
they
labour
to
bryng
vnto
lyght
,
and
to
restore
the
captyued
conscyences
of
ignoraunte
folke
vnto
the
fredome
of
Goddes
word
,
whereof
muche
people
nowe
a
dayes
are
no
lesse
desyrous
than
the
Jewes
were
of
theyr
delyueraunce
of
bodely
captyuyte
.
W.
To
aunswere
you
in
this
point
,
I
doubt
nothing
but
this
Theudas
and
Judas
pretended
to
the
people
(
whom
they
fynallye
disceaued
)
the
auctorite
of
God
,
&
that
they
were
speciallye
sent
of
him
for
their
deliueraunce
,
shewing
some
coloured
apparence
vnto
the
same
:
Lyke
as
Martyn
Luther
in
the
begynnynge
pretended
a
meruelouse
zele
&
tender
affection
towarde
the
blynd
ignoraunce
of
people
,
for
to
reduce
theym
vnto
the
clearenes
of
knowlege
,
shewyng
such
a
feruent
spyrit
,
that
he
was
iudged
to
be
syngulerlye
chosen
of
God
now
in
these
latter
dayes
,
for
a
dew
reformation
of
the
hole
worlde
.
But
consyder
to
what
open
myscheife
hys
secrete
malignite
braste
for
the
at
last
,
and
how
many
thousandes
by
occasion
of
his
doctryne
haue
peryshed
and
dayly
perishe
both
in
body
and
sowle
:
whereof
to
haue
a
further
declaration
,
yf
ye
wyll
here
me
with
patience
,
I
shall
so
describe
vnto
you
the
fashion
of
hym
and
of
hys
adherentes
,
that
ye
may
euydently
know
that
they
are
no
Disciples
of
Christ
,
but
of
Antychryste
,
no
trewe
doctours
but
false
dysceauers
,
no
Apostles
but
apostatas
,
and
patrons
of
peruersitie
,
N.
Now
I
beseche
you
them
to
procede
on
youre
purpose
,
declarynge
it
at
length
:
and
I
shall
gladly
geue
you
the
hearynge
with
out
interruption
,
trusting
verely
that
all
parcialitie
set
aparte
,
ye
wyll
shewe
the
verye
trueth
,
accordynge
as
ye
haue
perfitly
knowen
by
experience
.
And
thus
doynge
ye
may
setle
many
mennes
hartes
at
rest
in
this
troubelous
season
,
so
sore
encombred
with
contencions
and
sondrye
opynions
of
learned
men
,
that
they
can
not
tell
what
partye
they
maye
best
leane
vnto
.
W.
Syr
fyrste
of
al
I
protest
here
,
that
I
entend
to
speake
no
further
thanne
I
haue
perceaued
amonge
them
my selfe
,
or
elles
perfytelye
enformed
by
credable
personnes
,
of
whose
certification
I
ought
to
haue
no
mystrust
.
Wherfore
for
to
god
vnto
my
purpose
,
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
thys
Martyne
Luther
cheyfe
Captayne
of
newe
heretikes
,
&
bringer
forth
of
olde
heresyes
,
was
a
freere
Augustyne
in
the
citie
of
Wittenberge
,
vnder
the
dominion
of
Frederike
duke
of
Saxony
.
Whyche
duke
opteyned
a
pardon
fro
Rome
for
the
buylding
of
a
certayne
college
there
within
his
owne
pallace
,
wherof
Martin
Luther
was
a
great
setter
forwarde
,
vntyll
the
tyme
that
thyther
came
a
Jubelye
from
the
Pope
,
dysanullyng
the
dukes
pardon
among
other
for
a
season
:
wherwith
Martyn
Luther
not
a
litle
offended
,
endeuoured
hym selfe
to
preach
agaynst
it
.
And
sone
after
he
putte
for
the
in
prynt
a
treatyse
De
indulgentijs
,
inueynge
agaynst
the
graunt
of
pardons
how
be
it
so
closely
,
that
he
was
supposed
not
to
haue
condemned
the
auctoritie
but
only
the
abuse
,
whiche
to
saye
the
truth
was
to
farre
oute
of
frame
in
that
prouiuce
.
And
also
he
toke
in
hande
to
preache
the
playne
textes
of
scrypture
,
dysclosing
the
blyndnes
of
the
world
,
and
detectyng
the
fautes
of
al
estates
,
both
hyghe
and
lowe
,
spyrytuall
and
temporall
,
vnder
suche
moderation
that
he
was
taken
for
a
prophete
of
God
amonge
them
,
and
grew
in
estimation
of
the
people
dayly
more
and
more
.
Notwithstandynge
he
pretended
to
take
no
parte
with
any
seete
other
faction
of
Heretikes
,
as
Wicklyf
,
Hus
,
Berengarius
,
and
suche
other
whom
he
vtterly
condemned
,
dyssalowynge
the
Boemes
,
because
they
separated
them
selues
from
the
church
of
Rome
,
constantly
affyrmyng
the
pope
to
be
Christes
vicarye
.
Thus
he
playd
the
wolfe
in
a
lambes
skynne
a
whyle
secretly
,
tyl
his
frutes
gaue
euidence
&
openly
bewrayd
what
he
was
in
effect
For
shortly
after
he
altered
his
mynde
,
&
reuoked
that
he
had
spoken
before
,
wysshing
all
his
bookes
that
were
emprynted
to
be
burned
&
vtterly
destroyed
.
Then
beganne
he
stoutly
to
fortefy
his
fayned
fayth
voyde
of
good
workes
,
perswadynge
lybertie
and
assuraunce
of
saluacion
to
the
defacinge
of
charitable
deedes
and
suppression
of
the
drede
of
God
.
Then
preached
he
pleasaunte
thynges
to
hys
audyence
,
howe
no
manne
was
bounde
to
confesse
hym
vnto
a
preist
,
nether
to
obserue
the
prescription
of
prelates
aboute
fastynges
and
exception
of
meate
and
dryncke
,
and
that
no
person
neded
to
payne
hym self
wyth
woorkes
of
satysfactyon
,
whyles
Chryste
hadde
payd
ynoughe
for
vs
all
.
Also
how
constitutions
of
Popes
and
Bysshoppes
bynde
vs
nothynge
.
Then
all
his
Sermones
were
agaynste
the
cleargye
,
callynge
the
Pope
Antichrist
,
and
his
folowers
Dysciples
of
Sathans
Synagoge
,
in
whose
defiaunce
he
made
a
booke
intytuled
,
De
captiuitate
Babilonica
,
ful
of
conuycyous
furyes
,
and
ragynge
blasphemye
agaynst
the
blessed
Sacramentes
,
preferrynge
his
owne
iudgement
aboue
the
holy
doctours
of
the
churche
.
And
where
as
he
hadde
wytnessed
before
,
that
Micklyfe
,
Hus
,
Berengarius
,
&
suche
other
were
heretikes
:
than
he
sayde
that
they
were
godlye
men
and
saintes
,
callyng
their
condempners
Antechristes
and
limmes
of
the
Deuyll
.
Furthermore
to
bring
kynges
,
princes
,
and
temporall
Gouernoures
in
contempte
of
theyr
subiectes
:
he
spared
nother
by
preachyng
nor
teaching
to
rayle
agaynst
them
,
somtime
preuely
where
he
durst
not
discouer
his
malyce
for
feare
of
displeasure
,
and
sometyme
apartelye
there
as
he
thoughte
hymselfe
in
no
daunger
of
them
on
whome
he
rayled
:
as
wytnesse
the
letters
of
conspyracie
whyche
he
craftelye
forged
to
destroye
the
Duke
George
of
Saxonye
.
Also
the
outragious
treatyse
that
he
wrote
agaynst
the
kinges
hyghenes
both
in
latyn
&
Duch
,
so
shameles
and
sedicyouselye
,
that
it
is
not
onely
condemned
of
good
men
,
but
also
abhorred
of
his
owne
adherentes
.
Yet
all
thys
whyle
he
forbare
the
comons
&
vplandy
she
people
,
and
encouraged
them
to
note
other
mens
vyces
,
rather
than
to
amend
theyr
own
fawtes
,
alledgyng
oftentymes
vnto
them
,
tyranny
of
prynces
oppression
of
the
clergy
,
wyth
other
manyfolde
miseries
and
wretched
calamities
,
whyche
he
sayd
they
were
wrongfully
compelled
to
suffer
.
Whereby
within
small
processe
of
tyme
,
they
toke
suche
a
stomake
,
that
the
drede
of
God
and
man
set
asyde
,
they
arose
vppe
wyth
open
sedicyon
in
dyuers
parties
of
Germanye
aboue
the
noumber
of
an
hundred
thousande
persannes
,
in
such
a
furious
fasshion
,
that
euerye
man
almooste
stoode
in
feare
of
hys
lyfe
.
Wherfore
M.
Luther
perceyuynge
no
small
ieoperdye
toward
him
throughe
their
insurrection
,
because
the
occasion
of
it
was
layd
to
his
charge
as
it
was
in
deede
:
immediatly
to
shyfte
hym selfe
from
suspicion
and
daungerous
displeasure
of
the
prynces
&
great
men
he
wrote
hastelye
a
boke
voyde
of
all
Chrysten
charitie
and
naturall
compassion
,
agaynste
the
sayde
commons
or
vpiandy
she
people
,
so
extremely
that
it
would
abhorre
an
he
then
hart
to
here
or
reade
it
,
enforcynge
euerye
man
wythoute
anye
respecte
of
pytie
,
to
kyll
and
slee
theym
as
houndes
:
of
whome
were
myserablye
slayne
in
one
place
and
another
,
aboue
.iii.
score
thousand
persons
,
the
resydue
beynge
nowe
a
lyfe
in
farre
greater
misery
&
calamytie
than
euer
they
were
afore
.
After
thys
fell
a
dissention
betwene
M.
Luther
and
Carolstadius
,
aboute
the
Sacramente
of
the
aultar
.
For
Carolstadius
denyeth
in
it
the
bodelye
presence
of
Christe
,
affyrmynge
that
when
he
spake
these
words
:
Hoc
est
corpus
meum
he
meant
them
of
his
owne
corporall
bodye
and
not
of
the
Sacramente
:
where
as
M.
Luther
holdeth
the
contrarye
,
all
be
it
he
beganne
to
fall
frome
it
,
as
his
owne
wrytinge
testyfyeth
,
had
he
not
ben
preuented
by
this
Carolstadius
,
whome
the
wicked
arrogauncy
of
his
stomake
could
not
suffer
to
be
auctoure
of
so
hye
an
heresye
,
where
of
he
coueted
hym selfe
to
haue
ben
father
.
Thys
varyaunce
endurynge
betwyxte
them
:
dyuers
forsoke
M.
Luther
and
leaned
to
Carolstadius
syde
,
&
manye
malycyous
letters
fraudulently
forged
,
were
conueyed
frome
the
one
to
the
other
,
with
calummous
prechinges
,
ye
and
when
they
met
together
,
more
ready
wyth
fystes
than
with
pacient
arguments
to
trye
their
cause
hadde
they
not
bene
sondered
.
Notwithstanding
through
fauour
of
the
duke
and
other
valyaunt
frendes
,
M.
Luther
so
preuayled
agaynst
him
that
he
was
excommunicate
:
&
beyng
a
man
of
auncyent
age
,
an
olde
preist
newly
maried
,
and
some
tyme
archedeaken
of
Myttenberge
,
was
fayne
to
leaue
hys
younge
wyfe
,
and
auoyde
the
domynyon
of
Saxony
.
After
that
he
had
wandred
through
dyuers
cities
and
townes
swadynge
his
opynion
with
odyous
reporte
,
to
the
minishynge
of
M.
Luthers
fame
:
at
laste
he
cam
to
Scirich
in
Switzer
lande
,
where
he
founde
one
accordynge
to
hys
execrable
appetyte
,
named
Swynglyus
,
which
was
there
an
exceading
setter
forth
of
M.
Luthers
doctryn
.
To
whom
as
sone
as
he
had
disclosed
his
detestable
heresye
agaynst
the
blessed
sacrament
,
he
gladly
accepted
hym
,
and
in
denyinge
the
corporall
presence
of
Christ
,
agreed
both
in
one
,
sauynge
in
this
poynte
they
differed
:
where
as
Carol
stadius
sayd
that
our
saueour
Chryst
spekyng
these
wordes
:
Hoc
est
corpus
meum
,
meaned
his
corporall
presence
there
syttynge
with
his
disciples
at
the
table
&
not
in
forme
of
bread
:
Swinglius
affyrmed
that
they
were
not
to
be
vnderstanded
lytterallye
,
but
by
a
figure
of
interpretation
,
so
that
est
was
taken
for
significat
,
and
these
wordes
of
Chryste
,
thys
is
my
bodye
,
were
as
muche
to
saye
,
as
this
sygnifyeth
my
body
.
Of
thys
matter
he
wrote
sondry
epistles
to
dyuers
of
his
famylyar
frendes
,
gloryouslye
reioycing
that
he
hadde
founde
oute
the
longe
vnknowen
true
the
,
of
so
hyghe
a
mysterye
:
not
by
the
occasyon
of
Carolstadius
(
as
he
boasted
)
but
through
his
own
diligent
readynge
of
Scripture
,
&
specyally
of
Saynt
Augustyns
workes
,
whoe
in
verye
dede
is
cleane
contrary
to
his
horryble
heresy
.
Neuerthelesse
many
of
M.
Luthers
adherentes
assented
vnto
hym
,
amonge
whome
the
cheif
was
Oecolampadius
:
whiche
beynge
a
seculer
preiste
of
.xl.
yeares
of
age
,
entred
the
religion
of
saint
Brygyttes
order
in
the
prouince
of
Bauarye
,
and
for
heresies
that
he
hadde
vttered
both
by
preachyng
and
wrytyng
,
standinge
in
daunger
of
the
Dukes
attachiamente
,
he
ranne
awaye
pryuylye
wyth
a
nonne
of
the
place
,
whome
sone
after
he
forsoke
,
and
gat
him
for
refuge
to
a
Lutheran
Prynce
named
Fraunces
de
Sychken
,
a
noble
personnage
by
byrthe
,
but
a
cruell
tyraunte
of
behaueoure
,
a
greate
murtherer
,
a
common
spoiler
of
marchaunts
and
a
rouere
of
hyghe
wayes
,
whyche
maynteyned
hym
and
one
Hutten
a
Knyghte
of
the
newe
Gospel
,
geuen
holy
to
mischeife
,
tyll
at
the
least
for
fear
of
displeasure
of
other
prynces
,
he
was
driuen
to
put
them
away
.
Oecolampadius
came
then
to
Basyl
,
and
there
he
founde
manye
fauourers
of
M.
Luthers
faction
:
by
whose
ayde
he
was
promoted
to
be
curate
of
a
paryshe
churche
.
Where
he
handled
hys
matters
with
such
cloked
hypocrisye
,
that
he
wanne
many
mennes
hartes
,
craftely
sowynge
sedicious
disturbaunce
betwixte
the
temporalte
&
the
spiritualtye
,
in
such
wyse
that
the
hole
cytye
was
oftentimes
in
parell
of
insurrection
,
and
in
daunger
to
be
destroyed
.
But
thoughe
he
approued
the
oppynyon
of
Swinglius
with
preferrement
aboue
Carolstadius
:
yet
conceiued
he
another
pryuate
vnderstandynge
,
sayinge
,
that
Hoc
est
corpus
meum
,
oughte
thus
to
be
interpreted
:
this
is
a
fygure
or
a
representacyon
of
my
bodye
,
allegyng
Tertulliane
,
Chrisostome
&
saynt
Austen
for
hys
auctoritye
,
whom
he
vnderstandeth
a
mysse
,
and
recyteth
falsely
,
sometyme
addynge
more
to
theyr
wordes
,
sometyme
takynge
away
from
theyr
sentences
.
In
thys
space
Martyn
Luther
wrote
a
conuycyous
boke
agaynst
Carolstadius
,
and
he
an
aunswere
to
the
same
of
lyke
spyryte
,
and
semblable
charyte
,
so
that
Swinglius
and
his
company
whiles
other
menne
wondred
at
theyr
madnesse
,
laughed
them
bothe
to
scorne
.
Carolstadius
perceyuing
that
he
was
not
so
highly
estemed
as
he
reckened
to
haue
bene
,
alsoo
longynge
verye
soore
for
the
companye
of
hys
yonge
wyfe
:
at
laste
he
made
meanes
to
be
reconciled
again
to
Martyn
Luther
and
hys
churche
,
which
was
graunted
hym
vpon
condycyon
that
he
shoulde
reuoke
his
opinion
of
the
sacrament
,
wherto
he
agreed
albeit
he
helde
not
longe
touche
with
them
.
But
as
sone
as
he
had
recouered
his
wyfe
agayn
,
he
gat
him
out
of
the
waye
,
into
a
vilage
,
&
there
kept
a
comune
tauerne
,
besely
vttryng
his
olde
heresyes
.
and
dayly
contryuynge
newe
.
Thus
in
Germany
muche
vnquietnes
encreased
and
trouble
oute
of
measure
,
with
intollerable
varyaunce
betwene
seculer
people
and
the
clergye
:
many
dyf
famed
lybelles
&
slaunderous
wrytynges
euerye
where
disperpled
abroade
.
And
wher
as
was
but
one
faction
before
,
onlye
of
the
Lutheranes
:
than
sprang
there
vp
another
,
whiche
be
called
Oecolampadians
or
Swynglianes
,
out
of
whom
yssued
also
the
third
faction
named
Anabaptistes
,
conteyning
aboue
.xl.
seetes
of
dyuers
heresyes
and
sonderye
opinions
N.
In
good
fayth
ye
tell
here
a
shrewde
tale
by
theym
.
And
yf
it
be
true
as
ye
reherse
,
I
lyke
theyr
manners
a
great
deale
worse
than
I
dyd
.
But
specially
I
meruayle
that
they
be
deuyded
into
so
manye
factions
&
sondrye
sectes
seynge
they
pretende
to
professe
the
onely
doctryne
of
Chryst
,
whiche
nouryssheth
no
such
contencyous
dyuersitie
:
for
he
is
the
God
of
peace
&
not
of
dissencion
W.
I
ensure
you
there
be
in
Germany
.iii.
C.
sectes
aboue
the
nomber
that
I
haue
named
,
of
whose
varyable
opinyons
,
I
cowlde
partelye
make
rehersall
yf
I
had
conueniente
oportunyte
.
N.
Nowe
I
praye
you
for
the
satysfyenge
of
my
conscience
and
of
dyuers
other
whiche
peraduenture
haue
ben
desceaued
and
broughte
to
errours
,
by
the
fayned
report
of
them
,
which
wold
dylate
their
heresyes
vndernethe
the
coulour
of
vertuouse
lyuyng
,
boldelye
affyrmynge
in
reproch
of
our
catholike
beleue
that
amonge
them
is
perfyte
peace
,
concord
,
true
loue
and
charitie
,
frely
admynistred
to
euery
one
in
necessyte
wythout
respect
of
persons
.
But
fyrst
I
wold
that
ye
declared
somewhat
of
the
.iii.
principall
factions
.
W.
The
fyrste
as
I
haue
shewed
you
are
called
Lutherans
,
because
they
folow
Luthers
doctrine
.
The
seconde
lykewyse
are
called
Oecolampadyanes
or
Swynglyans
,
and
are
as
one
wyth
the
Lutheranes
in
raylynge
agaynst
the
cleargy
,
and
in
contempnyng
the
authorite
of
the
churche
,
but
in
the
sacrament
of
the
aultar
they
be
gretely
repugnaunt
:
and
so
farre
at
varyaunce
,
that
they
haue
made
large
volumes
full
of
outragious
furies
one
against
another
,
in
suche
vncharitable
maner
that
it
excedeth
the
blasphemouse
contencyons
of
all
heretykes
and
infydeles
that
euer
were
before
our
daies
.
ye
theyr
hatefull
ennemyte
is
so
malycyous
,
that
yf
anye
of
the
Oecolampadyanes
resorte
amonge
the
Lutheranes
:
they
shal
be
excommunicated
as
hethen
personnes
,
and
fynd
very
small
charyte
,
whiche
they
call
loue
after
the
newe
interpretatyon
.
And
in
lyke
maner
the
Lutheranes
shall
fynde
as
lyttle
fauour
amonge
the
Oecolampadyanes
.
The
thyrde
faction
be
called
Anabaptysts
,
because
they
are
twyse
Chrystened
,
and
wyll
admyt
none
as
theyr
faythfull
brethren
except
they
be
rebaptyzed
agayne
.
They
suffre
not
theyr
chyldren
to
be
Chrystened
vntyll
they
be
of
greate
age
,
and
haue
manye
straunge
opynyons
.
They
affyrme
that
it
is
impossyble
for
Kynges
,
prynces
,
iustices
,
and
other
gouernours
of
the
comon
weale
,
to
be
Christen
men
.
They
obstynately
hold
that
it
is
vnlawfull
for
a
iudge
to
requyre
any
othe
of
a
Christen
man
.
They
saye
that
chrysten
men
oughte
to
make
no
prouysyon
nor
resistence
agaynste
theyr
enemies
but
frelye
suffer
them
to
do
their
wyll
.
Also
they
shewe
holy
perfection
outwardly
,
obseruynge
vygyles
,
fastynges
,
wyth
contynuall
readynge
of
scrypture
,
redye
to
helpe
theyr
nedy
brothren
,
vsynge
theyr
goodes
in
commone
.
And
they
disprayse
much
the
lyuyng
of
the
Lutheranes
&
Oecolampadians
,
sayenge
as
I
haue
hard
them
my selfe
report
,
that
they
be
worse
than
the
cleargye
,
whom
they
call
Papistes
,
for
because
they
haue
the
Gospel
in
theyr
monthes
and
frame
theyr
lyues
nothynge
thereafter
,
shewynge
none
amendment
of
their
●ewd
conuersation
,
but
continue
styll
in
vycyous
excesses
after
the
common
rate
of
mysbeleuers
.
And
therefore
they
be
in
greuous
hatred
and
suffre
muche
persecution
of
the
other
,
as
excommunication
,
exyle
,
emprysonment
,
&
oftentymes
cruell
execution
of
death
:
insomoche
that
it
is
enacted
throughoute
Suytzerland
among
the
Oecolampadyanes
,
and
in
dyuers
other
places
,
that
whosoeuer
is
founde
of
the
Anabaptystes
faction
,
he
shall
be
throwen
quycke
into
the
water
,
&
there
drowned
.
N.
I
se
well
than
sayenge
and
doynge
are
not
al
one
.
For
I
am
enformed
that
Martyn
Luther
hath
wryten
extremely
agaynst
the
persecution
of
Prelates
,
affyrmynge
it
to
be
agaynste
the
spyryte
of
God
to
persecute
or
to
put
to
death
for
vnbeleife
or
errours
consyderynge
that
faith
(
as
he
doth
saye
)
is
a
gyfte
of
god
,
&
no
man
maye
haue
it
of
hym selfe
.
Also
because
Chryste
neuer
compelled
anye
man
to
beleue
in
hym
,
commaundynge
the
wedes
to
be
suffered
amonge
the
corne
,
vntyll
the
heruest
commeth
W.
No
fayle
he
wrote
so
at
the
begynninge
,
but
after
warde
experience
taught
hym
the
contrarye
.
For
if
so
be
that
he
&
the
Oecolampadians
had
permitted
theyr
clientes
to
do
what
they
lusted
without
any
restraynte
:
they
had
ben
quite
oute
of
auctorite
ere
this
tyme
a
daye
.
Apon
which
consideration
it
was
forfended
in
all
cyties
and
iurisdictiones
of
the
Lutherans
,
that
no
man
shuld
bye
or
sell
other
receaue
anye
booke
or
treatyse
compyled
by
the
Oecolampadyanes
.
And
they
in
lyke
maner
made
actes
to
suppresse
the
Anabaptystes
,
fearyng
least
theyr
sectes
shuld
vaynquysh
theyr
faccyon
.
N.
Yf
the
Anabaptists
haue
so
many
sectes
as
ye
recyte
,
I
praye
you
to
declare
some
of
them
.
W.
At
your
instaunce
I
shall
gladly
.
There
be
some
whyche
holde
opynyon
that
al
deuylles
&
damned
soules
shal
be
saued
at
the
daye
of
dome
.
Some
of
them
perswade
that
the
Serpent
which
dysceaued
Eue
was
Christ
.
Some
of
them
graunt
to
euerye
man
and
woman
two
soules
.
Some
affyrme
lecherye
to
be
no
synne
,
&
that
one
maye
vse
another
mannes
wyfe
withoute
offence
.
Some
take
vpon
them
to
be
sooth
say
ers
and
Prophetes
of
wonder
full
thynges
to
come
,
and
haue
prophesyed
the
daye
of
iudgement
to
be
at
hande
:
some
with
in
three
monethes
,
some
with
in
one
monneth
,
some
wythin
vi
.
dayes
.
Some
of
them
both
men
and
women
at
theyr
congregatyons
for
a
mysterye
▪
shewe
them selues
naked
,
affyrmynge
that
they
be
in
the
state
of
innocencye
.
Also
some
holde
that
no
man
ought
to
be
punisshed
,
or
suffre
execucyon
for
any
cryme
or
trespace
be
it
neuer
so
horryble
,
whereof
I
wyl
shew
you
an
example
done
mater
in
dede
.
In
Switzerland
a
lytle
from
saynt
Gal
,
at
a
place
named
Cella
Abbatis
,
one
of
these
Anabaptistes
slewe
his
owne
brother
,
&
smote
of
hys
heade
.
When
he
was
demaunded
why
he
dydde
so
,
this
was
his
aunswer
:
It
was
the
wyll
of
the
father
that
I
should
do
it
,
and
so
he
escaped
wythoute
punysshemente
.
For
thoughe
they
be
gredy
in
reprouing
other
mens
fawtes
,
makynge
haynous
exclamations
agaynst
them
:
yet
ponder
they
full
lytle
the
correctyon
of
theyr
owne
enormityes
,
callynge
them
infyrmytyes
and
weaknes
of
the
fleshe
be
they
neuer
so
abhomynable
N
,
Well
yet
me
thynketh
by
youre
sayinge
here
before
,
that
many
of
them
leade
a
more
commendable
lyfe
in
face
of
the
world
than
the
common
sort
of
the
Lutheranes
or
Oecolampadians
,
W.
ye
verelye
vnto
the
outwarde
ostentation
.
But
there
cometh
greater
inconuenience
by
theym
whiche
haue
suche
a
shadowe
of
holy
lyuynge
,
than
by
the
other
.
And
there
is
nothynge
more
peryllous
in
sedu
cynge
the
symple
,
than
a
paynted
pretence
of
an
holye
lyfe
,
where
as
they
swerue
ones
from
the
ryght
fayth
and
catholyke
beleife
.
Whiche
is
easye
to
be
proued
by
euydente
examples
as
well
of
the
olde
heretiques
,
as
of
oure
new
Captaynes
of
the
moste
hye
heresies
.
And
to
shew
you
the
trueth
as
I
haue
expertely
founde
,
some
I
haue
knowen
so
angelyke
of
conuersation
,
that
I
coulde
haue
founde
in
my
harte
to
commytte
my
soule
wholy
into
theyr
dyrection
:
whom
afterwarde
I
haue
perfytelye
perceyued
to
be
auctours
of
such
detestable
heresies
,
that
it
wold
make
a
christen
hart
to
tremble
for
to
here
them
ones
named
.
And
to
tell
you
of
one
amonge
manye
.
I
was
aquaynted
with
a
certayn
personne
of
the
Oecolampadians
in
the
citie
of
Argentyne
,
whiche
led
a
lyfe
inculpable
amonge
his
neighbours
,
and
was
reputed
of
vertuous
conuersation
,
exercysynge
hym self
contynually
in
charytable
workes
,
and
vnderstode
freshelye
the
scryptures
in
his
mother
tonge
,
for
he
was
ignoraunte
of
Latyne
.
Afterwarde
he
fell
into
so
abhominable
heresie
,
that
he
denied
openly
the
new
testament
sayinge
that
Christ
was
a
false
Prophete
,
and
all
his
apostles
disceuers
,
acceptynge
no
part
of
the
olde
Testament
,
but
the
fyue
bookes
of
Moyses
.
The
cheif
preachers
and
lerned
men
of
the
cytye
came
vnto
hym
for
to
reforme
hym
by
waye
of
dysputatyon
,
and
to
brynge
hym
from
his
erroure
,
requyrynge
hym
to
shewe
what
ground
of
Scripture
,
or
what
occasion
moued
hym
to
take
so
peryllous
opynyon
.
To
whome
he
answered
coldly
with
soft
wordes
&
demure
countenaunce
,
how
he
woulde
nether
dispute
nor
argue
with
theym
,
sayinge
that
it
was
his
beleif
&
was
assured
of
God
with
witnesse
of
his
conscience
to
be
trewe
.
Apon
this
incontinent
he
was
enprysoned
and
at
laste
brought
before
the
lordes
of
the
towne
,
whiche
in
lyke
manner
exhorted
hym
to
reuoke
his
heresyes
,
manacynge
hym
with
feare
of
terrible
death
,
if
he
would
not
chaunge
hys
erronious
mynde
.
He
answered
that
he
was
redy
to
suffre
whatsoeuer
death
God
had
ordeyned
hym
vnto
,
and
woulde
nether
for
fear
,
nor
for
fauour
go
from
hys
opynyon
.
Wherefore
after
a
sufficient
delyberation
,
seynge
he
woulde
tourne
by
no
meanes
,
sentence
was
geuen
that
he
shoulde
be
burned
.
N.
In
good
faythe
well
worthy
:
but
was
he
burned
in
deede
?
W.
No.
For
when
he
shoulde
haue
gone
to
the
place
of
execution
,
accordynge
to
the
vsaunce
of
the
countrye
,
he
was
first
brought
before
the
towne
howse
,
and
there
his
artycles
recyted
.
He
was
asked
whether
they
were
the
very
same
which
he
hadde
affyrmed
before
them
.
He
aunswered
ye
.
Howbeit
nowe
(
he
sayd
)
God
hath
opened
my
ignoraunce
,
&
I
acknowlege
me
slaunderousely
to
haue
erred
,
askynge
you
all
forgyuenes
.
I
beleue
perfytely
that
Jesus
Chryst
is
my
sauyour
,
and
am
redy
in
his
fayth
to
suffre
thys
deth
prepared
for
me
.
The
lordes
then
where
as
they
had
giuen
sentence
that
he
shuld
haue
ben
burned
,
for
a
more
easye
deth
,
they
assigned
him
to
be
be
hedyd
,
whereof
he
thanked
them
,
and
went
towarde
the
place
of
iustyce
,
patiently
takynge
hys
death
with
great
repentaunce
.
N.
This
may
be
a
good
admonisshment
that
men
shoulde
not
be
so
wauerynge
in
fayth
,
as
to
geue
credence
in
all
thinges
to
any
persone
for
the
onely
pretence
of
exterioure
holines
,
in
as
muche
as
the
deuyll
can
transfygure
hym selfe
into
an
angels
lykenes
,
and
a
false
peruerter
take
vppon
hym
the
offyce
of
a
trewe
Apostle
.
Moreouer
I
consider
by
your
communicacyon
,
and
playne
experyence
here
rehearsed
,
that
yf
the
frowarde
sturdynes
of
vnruly
people
were
not
restrayned
by
lawes
,
prohibitions
,
&
sharpe
punyshmentes
,
euery
common
weale
woulde
be
sone
subuerted
,
and
the
whole
world
come
to
noughte
.
W.
As
for
that
ye
may
take
example
not
farre
hens
at
the
county
of
Emdone
in
East
Fryselande
,
where
the
earle
,
ruler
of
the
county
,
fyrste
receyuyng
Martyn
Luthers
doctryne
,
&
afterwarde
Oecolampadius
opynion
?
suffered
his
people
to
read
all
maner
of
Bookes
,
and
to
be
of
what
so
euer
secte
or
opynion
they
would
without
any
restraynt
.
Shortelye
after
one
of
theyr
cheife
preachers
whiche
hadde
bene
a
freer
obseruante
,
a
man
of
subtyle
learnynge
,
and
pleasaunt
speache
,
hyghlye
estemed
among
the
people
:
beganne
to
preache
in
openne
audience
agaynst
the
blessed
trinitie
,
sayenge
that
there
was
but
one
person
,
one
God
,
and
that
our
Sauyour
Christe
was
a
creature
as
we
are
,
a
pure
man
,
and
not
God
,
but
hauynge
goddes
spyryte
.
This
caused
not
a
lyttle
dyscorde
betwene
the
preachers
and
the
people
,
for
many
of
the
country
leaned
vnto
him
takynge
his
parte
so
stronglye
that
the
earle
was
fayne
to
banyshe
hym
oute
of
hys
domynion
,
all
be
it
hys
pestyferous
sede
remayned
styl
.
Then
cam
thither
doctour
Baltazar
,
and
after
hym
Carolstadius
,
bryngynge
in
the
faction
of
the
Anabaptistes
,
to
the
augmentinge
of
greater
confusion
.
For
wher
as
some
christened
theyr
chyldren
theyr
next
neyghbours
wolde
not
,
one
condemnyng
another
with
dedly
hatred
.
The
meane
●eason
a
certayne
skynner
of
Denmarke
in
the
Dukedome
of
Holsatye
,
where
Martyne
Luthers
doctryne
was
onely
in
strength
,
preched
Oecolampadius
opinion
with
so
craftye
argumentes
,
that
Martynes
fame
began
to
decreace
.
Wherfore
doctoure
Pomerane
was
sent
from
Wyttenberge
to
dyspute
agaynst
hym
,
and
in
conclusion
obtayned
the
vyctorye
throughe
partiall
fauoure
(
as
some
reported
)
of
the
duke
and
Lordes
of
the
cytyes
of
Homburghe
and
Breame
:
whyche
immediatly
commaunded
that
no
man
shulde
be
so
hardye
to
contrarye
or
swerue
from
the
doctryne
of
Martyn
Luther
,
vnder
payne
of
banysshynge
,
and
other
punysshement
.
Then
two
prechers
of
Breame
were
sent
to
Emdone
to
dyswade
the
earle
&
his
people
from
Oecolampadius
opinion
,
and
from
the
confuse
dyuersyte
of
other
sectes
,
also
to
reduce
theym
agayne
vnto
Martyn
Luthers
wayes
.
The
earle
with
his
councell
at
theyr
perswasyons
alienated
theyr
mindes
from
Oecolampadius
,
streytely
charging
all
those
preachers
whiche
had
susteyned
his
faction
,
or
anye
other
,
sauynge
Martyn
Luthers
,
to
departe
oute
of
hys
countrye
by
a
certayne
daye
apoynted
.
Then
was
it
a
wonder
to
se
what
murmuration
,
grudge
,
and
rumoure
of
sedycion
was
amonge
the
people
,
not
withoute
lykelyhed
of
fallynge
together
by
the
eares
,
&
insurrection
agaynste
theyr
prynce
,
had
not
he
sought
prouydent
meanes
to
pacyfy
them
.
This
continued
no
longe
space
but
letters
came
from
Argentyne
,
Basyle
,
zyricke
,
Bearne
,
and
from
many
persons
of
notable
erudition
,
after
theyr
estemynge
,
also
from
the
prynce
of
Hesse
,
aduertisyng
the
earle
wyth
seryous
exhortation
,
to
call
home
agayne
the
preachers
of
Oecolampadius
faction
,
and
reprehendyng
his
sodayn
mutabylytie
from
theyr
institute
,
so
apparente
by
manyfest
coniectures
to
preuayle
aboue
the
other
.
At
whose
importune
requestes
and
subtyle
instygacyons
,
he
chaunged
yet
agayne
hys
purpose
,
and
gaue
the
Oecolampadian
preachers
licence
to
returne
into
theyr
olde
places
,
and
lybertie
to
preache
as
they
were
before
accustomed
:
commaunding
silence
vnto
the
other
,
or
elles
auoydaunce
of
his
countrye
.
Lo
thus
may
ye
se
what
varyable
inconstancye
and
sondry
mutations
of
condemned
heresyes
hath
ensued
with
euident
confusion
,
where
as
people
be
deuided
from
the
v●itye
of
the
christen
church
,
&
contemne
to
walke
after
the
wholsome
decrees
of
catholike
fathers
,
wrestynge
the
ryght
sence
of
scryptures
vnto
theyr
crooked
ymaginacyons
.
And
specyallye
where
the
brydle
of
sensualite
is
set
at
large
,
to
the
sturdye
frowardnes
of
sedicyous
subiectes
,
sometime
by
the
effeminat
tendernes
of
princes
,
so
negligently
regarded
,
the
afterwarde
theyr
fearfull
rygour
is
scant
able
to
redresse
it
:
which
hath
bene
the
lamentable
dekay
of
the
Boemes
,
and
is
now
the
ruynous
myscheife
of
the
hye
Almaynes
,
not
vnlykely
to
be
the
desolation
of
christendome
yf
remedy
be
not
founde
in
season
.
N.
Sauynge
your
pacyence
me
thought
ye
declared
here
that
the
Land
graue
of
Hesse
is
a
fauourer
of
Swinglius
&
Oecolampadius
,
who
wyth
his
people
as
I
vnderstande
admytteth
Martyn
Luthers
wayes
and
none
other
.
W.
I
wyll
not
denye
but
he
maynteyneth
styl
Martyn
Luthers
doctryne
,
albeit
synce
the
dysputation
was
before
hym
,
he
hath
fauoured
so
greatlye
the
opynion
of
Oecolampadius
and
Swinglius
,
that
were
it
not
as
I
deme
for
feare
of
displeasynge
hys
confederate
cosyne
the
duke
of
Saxony
,
and
frentyke
perturbation
of
Martyn
Luther
,
he
wolde
haue
sustayned
it
openlye
ere
this
tyme
.
Wytnesse
the
gloryous
comendation
vnto
their
faces
whiles
they
were
present
,
and
synguler
preferrement
of
them
amonge
hys
famylyer
counsellers
,
also
hys
beneuolent
lyberalytie
at
theyr
departyng
wyth
letters
afterward
betwyxe
them
farsed
full
of
paynted
prayses
in
theyr
absence
.
N.
I
beseche
you
when
and
vnder
what
maner
was
thys
dysputation
.
W.
In
the
yere
of
our
Lord
.
1528.
the
prince
of
Hesse
in
his
cheife
cyte
of
Marburge
caused
there
to
be
assembled
Martin
Luther
,
Melancton
,
Oecolampadius
,
Swinglius
,
Capito
,
Butzer
wyth
many
other
of
the
most
famous
clerkes
of
the
Lutheranes
and
Oecolampadianes
(
the
Anabaptistes
onely
excluded
)
where
dyuers
artycles
were
doubtfully
proponed
to
the
nomber
of
.xv.
whyche
before
tyme
hadde
bene
discussed
and
clerely
determyned
in
general
counselles
of
the
vnyuersall
church
.
And
when
they
had
by
longe
processe
vnfrutefully
disputed
aboute
the
iustificacion
of
fayth
without
good
works
:
of
baptysme
,
and
other
questyons
vpon
which
they
had
written
whole
bokes
:
yet
in
the
ende
were
they
driuen
to
the
old
determination
of
the
churche
,
saue
least
theyr
wrytynges
shoulde
seme
in
vayne
,
&
theyr
assemblynge
to
be
ydie
,
they
founde
out
some
contrariety
of
so
slender
importancye
,
that
men
may
playnlye
iudge
in
them
,
other
inuyncyble
arrogance
disdaynynge
to
be
reformed
,
or
elles
obstynate
malyce
,
sekyng
for
the
nones
to
impugne
the
trewth
.
Concerninge
the
sacrament
of
the
altare
wherin
rested
the
princypall
matter
of
theyr
disputation
,
they
greately
varyed
and
coulde
by
no
meanes
agree
.
Howe
be
it
they
concluded
at
laste
,
that
eche
parte
holdyng
them
contente
with
theyr
beleife
,
should
departe
in
louynge
frendshyppe
,
without
any
odyous
wrytinge
from
thence
forth
one
agaynst
another
.
N.
whether
of
them
obtayned
the
vyctory
?
W.
They
deuyded
it
betwene
theym
whyle
they
were
presente
.
But
sone
after
theyr
departyng
,
the
Lutheranes
ascribed
it
to
Martyn
Luther
,
and
contrarye
the
Oecolompadianes
vnto
Oecolampadius
and
Swynglyus
.
N.
Use
they
such
crafty
conueyaunce
in
promotyng
theyr
Gospell
?
W.
ye
hardely
,
and
that
without
any
shame
when
they
be
detected
of
it
,
inforsyng
men
agaynst
their
wylles
to
be
fautours
of
theyr
heresyes
.
Dyd
not
No●iomagus
gather
certayne
sentences
out
of
Erasmus
workes
,
which
falsely
depraued
,
he
coupled
vnto
Martyn
Luthers
assertions
,
and
caused
them
to
be
imprynted
:
blasyng
abrode
that
Erasmus
and
Luther
were
of
one
opynion
,
to
the
slaunderous
hynderaunce
of
his
profytable
studye
?
of
whome
after
muche
other
detraction
,
he
was
not
ashamed
to
craue
subsedye
in
his
beggarly
indygence
.
Also
Butzer
playd
a
lyke
pageante
with
Pomeran
in
translating
his
Psalter
out
of
latyne
into
the
Almayne
tonge
.
For
wher
he
aspyed
any
occasion
to
treat
of
the
blessed
Sacramente
:
he
plucked
out
Pomerans
sentences
,
and
graffed
in
his
own
after
no
compendyous
fashyon
:
which
as
sone
as
they
were
en
prynted
,
the
fame
noysed
ouer
all
that
Pomerane
(
vnknowynge
to
hym
)
was
one
with
the
Oecolampadianes
,
whyche
afterwarde
he
apartely
detested
in
dyuers
epystles
,
dyscoueryng
the
falsehod
of
Butzer
.
Suche
subtyll
dryftes
I
may
tell
you
among
them
is
daylye
not
vnpractised
.
N.
Well
,
ye
haue
here
rehersed
many
thinges
agaynst
them
,
wherein
yf
I
and
suche
other
wold
geue
credence
vnto
your
sayinges
wythoute
surmyse
of
percialite
,
we
shuld
sone
turne
oure
affection
from
theyr
learnynge
.
But
seyng
ye
haue
bene
a
fauourer
of
them
,
and
per
aduenture
bothe
spoken
and
wrytten
as
largely
as
the
rankest
of
them
all
whome
ye
nowe
call
heretykes
:
fayne
woulde
I
wyt
what
mocioned
you
to
take
it
in
hande
so
earnestlye
,
and
now
to
shyft
your selfe
from
it
so
lyghtelye
.
W.
To
shew
you
the
truthe
withoute
dissimulation
howe
I
was
entyced
vnto
theyr
faction
,
the
verye
begynnynge
was
this
.
I
had
redde
certayn
treatyses
of
Martyn
Luther
,
of
the
iustifycacion
onelye
by
fayth
wythoute
good
deedes
,
how
man
had
no
free
wyl
,
how
oure
good
workes
auayled
vs
nothynge
to
be
saued
,
nother
oure
yll
deedes
shoulde
cause
vs
to
be
damned
,
and
many
other
articles
whiche
he
falsely
presumed
to
ground
vpon
scripture
.
Also
I
dylygentlye
noted
howe
he
descrybed
the
abuses
of
Popes
,
Cardinalles
,
byshoppes
,
preistes
,
and
relygious
personnes
,
declarynge
howe
the
present
dekay
of
the
church
,
farre
differed
from
the
perfectyon
of
the
Apostles
and
holy
fathers
,
at
the
fyrst
begin
nynge
:
wherin
he
made
no
lye
though
in
other
thinges
he
spared
the
truthe
.
Furthermore
geuyng
eare
to
the
plesaunt
rumoures
of
his
reformations
,
highly
commended
among
new fangled
people
:
it
set
myne
harte
so
on
fyre
,
that
I
could
not
rest
vntyll
I
had
bene
there
with
them
.
After
that
I
had
sene
Martin
Luther
,
Pomerane
,
Melancton
,
&
heard
theyr
prechinges
,
perceyuyng
theyr
order
there
in
Saxonye
:
I
went
into
hye
Almayne
,
vnto
the
Oecolampadians
,
&
remaynynge
there
amonge
theym
,
was
oftentymes
conuersaunt
with
the
Anabaptistes
.
In
the
meane
space
I
sawe
many
wonderfull
alterations
,
as
destroyenge
of
monasteryes
,
pluckynge
downe
of
churches
,
castynge
out
of
ymages
,
breakynge
of
aultars
,
and
caryeng
the
consecrate
stones
to
the
buyldynge
of
theyr
bulwarkes
,
also
maryages
of
prestes
,
monkes
,
freers
,
nonnes
,
contempte
of
holy
dayes
,
anullynge
of
vygyles
,
fastynge
of
the
lent
,
and
embrynge
dayes
clene
reiecte
with
other
laudable
ordynaunces
instytute
by
the
churche
.
Al
places
of
scripture
where
mencyon
is
made
of
Antichrist
,
false
prophetes
,
maysters
of
lyes
,
&
such
other
▪
they
violently
applyed
vnto
the
clergye
,
namynge
theym selfe
chrysten
bretherne
,
dyscyples
of
Christe
,
and
apostles
of
hys
Gospell
.
In
denyenge
purgatorye
and
auctorite
of
the
pope
,
yf
they
founde
in
auncyent
auctours
as
much
as
a
corrupte
tytle
of
a
pystle
sownynge
any
thynge
to
theyr
purpose
,
all
be
it
the
Epystle
selfe
made
whole
agaynst
it
:
yet
wold
they
take
it
as
the
worde
of
god
and
sure
reuelation
of
the
spyryte
.
Contrarye
wyse
,
yfanye
alledged
Austen
,
Hierome
,
Cypryane
,
or
Chrysostome
agaynste
them
they
wolde
admytte
theyr
sentences
for
none
auctoryte
,
sayenge
they
were
men
,
&
all
men
were
lyers
.
In
like
maner
concernynge
the
sacrament
of
the
aultare
,
where
they
redde
in
doctours
of
the
spyrytuall
eatynge
and
ghostelye
beynge
:
they
onelye
accepted
that
,
and
vnder
the
coloure
therof
they
woulde
exclude
the
corporall
eatynge
and
bodelye
presence
of
Christ
,
to
the
establysshinge
of
theyr
blasphemous
errors
:
whiche
they
shadowed
vnder
the
couerte
of
hypocrysye
and
persuasions
of
peruerted
scriptures
,
in
suche
wyse
that
openlye
seyng
I
could
not
perceiue
them
,
vntyll
it
pleased
God
of
his
inest●mable
goodnes
to
brynge
me
oute
of
the
lande
of
darckenes
and
region
of
deth
,
vnto
the
clerenes
of
his
knowledge
&
lyuyng
lyght
of
truth
.
I
can
not
excuse
me
but
among
the
wycked
I
endeuored
my selfe
to
haue
doone
euyll
:
but
God
so
mercyfullye
preuented
me
,
that
it
came
to
small
effecte
in
doynge
anye
harme
.
If
I
haue
bene
occasion
of
any
mannes
fall
or
cause
of
slaunder
,
I
am
sorye
for
it
and
aske
forgeuenes
.
Notwythstandynge
I
neuer
defended
any
opinion
obstinately
,
nether
despised
the
admonycyon
of
any
vertuous
person
:
that
I
haue
erred
was
through
ignoraunce
,
and
of
no
malicious
pertynacite
.
Where
ye
be
in
perplexitie
of
credence
geuyng
vnto
my
words
,
I
am
sure
if
that
I
spake
accordynge
to
your
appetite
,
ye
would
put
no
dyffydence
in
me
whether
I
said
the
verite
or
lyed
:
for
it
is
a
playne
case
amonge
the
fauourers
of
these
newe
sectes
.
that
they
wyl
refuse
no
forged
tales
makyng
aught
for
theyr
syde
,
be
they
neuer
so
fals
.
And
seyng
ye
beleued
me
in
errour
:
ye
oughte
not
to
mystruste
me
nowe
in
my
faythfull
reuocacion
,
voluntarye
,
and
not
coacted
.
N.
Clearely
many
men
presuppose
that
other
ye
be
deluded
by
the
flatteryng
perswasyon
of
some
worldlye
persons
or
elles
vtterly
geuen
into
a
reprobate
mynde
,
throughe
gredye
desyre
of
yearthly
promotion
and
appetyte
of
ydle
lyuynge
.
W.
It
is
not
in
my
power
to
stoppe
the
wronge
surmyse
,
or
mysse
reporte
agaynst
me
,
now
enemy
vnto
theyr
errours
whyles
they
abuse
the
same
to
the
frendes
of
theyr
heresyes
:
namely
where
as
Sathan
is
loosed
at
large
,
and
the
lyenge
goste
the
spyryte
of
vntrueth
,
walketh
at
lyberty
vnrestreyned
.
Woulde
God
they
were
as
prest
to
remoue
the
balk
out
of
their
owne
eyes
,
as
they
be
prompte
to
aspye
a
lytle
mote
in
other
mens
.
They
crye
oute
sore
vpon
the
worldelye
wysedome
and
carnall
prudence
of
other
persons
,
callyng
them
tyrauntes
and
mynysters
of
Antechrist
,
wher
as
I
can
perceiue
none
more
gredy
of
carnall
policies
and
fleshely
ayde
of
tyrantes
than
they
be
.
Were
he
neuer
so
cruell
a
creature
,
or
myscheuous
fende
that
is
tourned
to
theyr
factions
,
they
receaue
hym
for
an
euangelyke
dyscyple
,
his
malycyous
mynde
nothynge
mynysshed
,
althoughe
percase
his
doyng
of
mischeife
is
restrayned
by
pouertye
or
some
other
myserable
impediment
agaynst
his
wyll
.
And
yf
any
body
speke
ought
agaynst
such
peruerse
penitentes
,
forth
with
they
alege
the
vnpitious
fiersnes
of
saynt
Paule
before
hys
conuersion
,
the
sinnes
of
Mary
Magdalene
and
her
penaunce
,
also
the
example
of
Christe
receyuing
publicanes
and
synners
,
and
how
the
angelles
of
heauen
ioye
more
vpon
one
penitent
sinner
.
&c.
Lu.
xv
.
I
pray
you
what
a
ghostelye
patrone
was
Hutten
theyr
furious
champyon
,
a
man
not
onelye
ouerwhelmed
wyth
heresyes
,
but
also
stuffed
full
of
all
vnhappynes
,
whose
horryble
ende
was
accordyng
to
hys
myscheuous
lyfe
.
For
after
that
he
had
bene
plaged
with
the
frenche
pockes
,
and
was
healed
of
them
seuen
sondrye
tymes
:
he
myscrably
dyed
of
them
in
an
yle
of
Swicherland
in
extreme
pouerte
abhorred
of
all
people
,
hys
vyle
carcas
eaten
with
soores
,
more
stynkynge
then
anye
caryon
,
so
that
vnneth
any
bodye
myght
abide
the
lothsome
staunche
of
it
.
Moreouer
I
beseche
you
with
what
christen
spyryt
dyd
Fraunces
of
Syckhym
defend
them
,
a
subuerter
of
peace
,
a
burner
of
poore
mennes
houses
,
&
a
troubler
of
all
Germany
,
vp
pon
whom
the
vengeaunce
of
God
dyd
lyghte
,
and
was
sodenly
slayne
in
a
Castell
besyde
Crutzynacke
to
the
infamye
of
hys
aunceters
and
disheritaunce
of
his
chyldren
.
I
passe
ouer
the
captaynes
of
the
vplandish
people
and
theyr
insurrection
,
partely
touched
before
.
N.
Ye
wot
wel
ynough
that
Martyn
Luther
dyd
wryt
agaynst
them
,
condemnyng
theyr
sedicious
enterpryse
.
W.
So
dyd
he
indede
when
it
was
to
late
voyde
of
remedye
.
But
as
long
as
they
were
in
any
lyklyhod
to
preuayle
,
he
rather
supported
them
.
What
heuenly
wysdome
dyd
the
monstruouse
fygures
sygnify
,
where
M.
Luther
was
portred
wyth
a
boke
in
his
hand
,
&
by
hym
Hutten
his
protect
our
in
complete
harnes
holdyng
a
drawen
sword
,
with
certayn
texts
vnderneth
prouokynge
sedicion
.
And
as
for
ydlenes
,
I
sawe
no
manne
more
fauty
in
it
than
them
selues
:
except
ye
account
that
for
profitable
busynes
when
they
be
nether
ydle
nor
well
occupied
.
Are
there
not
a
great
infinyte
nomber
amonge
them
,
that
can
lay
sharpely
to
other
mennes
charges
the
commaundement
of
God
genen
to
Adam
:
In
swete
of
thy
face
thou
shalt
eat
thy
bread
,
&
dylygently
repete
the
labourous
workyng
of
saynt
Paule
and
other
Disciples
of
Christe
,
which
lyue
delycately
in
ydlenes
?
And
suppose
ye
that
a
man
may
not
fynde
manye
of
them
whiche
haue
theyr
sustentation
vpon
the
spoyle
of
churches
,
robbery
of
monestaryes
,
and
extorcion
of
innocent
people
.
N.
Thoughe
some
of
them
be
of
suche
disposicion
:
yet
ought
not
ye
to
condemne
the
hole
nomber
of
the
good
for
a
small
somme
of
the
euyl
.
W.
Why
do
ye
then
dispise
the
vni
uersall
churche
,
because
some
of
them
be
noughte
.
N.
Mary
for
because
the
more
somme
of
the
euyll
,
su●
mountethe
the
lesse
nomber
of
the
good
.
W
And
thynke
you
that
it
maye
not
be
better
verefyed
among
the
new
gospellers
,
of
the
which
the
best
is
starke
nought
?
Not
wythstandynge
some
I
haue
knowen
of
excellent
lyterature
,
which
for
theyr
sober
conuersacion
and
temperate
lyuyng
,
yf
they
hadde
bene
as
seryous
in
furtherynge
the
fayth
as
they
were
in
settynge
forth
of
heresyes
,
were
worthy
to
be
pillers
of
Christes
church
.
But
I
ponder
not
so
greatly
the
outward
holynes
of
hypocrytes
,
consyderyng
that
Arrius
,
Maniche
us
,
Pellagius
,
&
other
execrable
here
tykes
euen
as
they
be
equall
wyth
them
in
heresyes
,
so
were
they
not
infer
yours
to
them
in
suche
hypocrysy
.
How
many
here
in
Englond
within
this
.
C.
yeare
haue
ridde
them selues
out
of
this
mortall
lyfe
,
wyth
a
desperate
death
hated
both
to
God
&
man
,
some
drow
ninge
them selues
,
some
cuttyng
theyr
owne
throtes
,
and
many
hangyng
them selues
,
whyche
in
theyr
lyfe
tyme
haue
ben
reputed
for
well
dysposed
,
vertuous
,
&
charitable
folke
aboue
the
comon
sorte
of
christen
people
,
&
paraduenture
some
here
in
London
of
our
olde
aquayntaunce
.
In
whome
is
fulfylled
the
sayinge
of
Samuell
:
Man
marketh
those
thinges
that
be
open
to
the
eye
,
but
God
considereth
the
secretnes
of
the
hart
,
to
the
verefyenge
of
Chrystes
worde
in
the
gospell
.
Luk.
17.
That
which
is
hyghly
auaunced
of
men
,
is
abhominable
in
the
syghte
of
God
.
Neuerthelesse
yf
ye
go
to
the
vttermost●
I
could
appoynt
ye
to
many
of
the
church
,
whiche
accomplysh
the
perfection
of
liuing
vnfaynedly
,
where
of
these
men
afore
sayd
haue
but
a
barren
pretence
or
a
dombe
similitude
.
And
as
for
the
worst
multitude
of
prestes
,
monkes
,
chanons
,
freers
,
and
other
relygious
persons
▪
I
dare
compare
theym
wyth
the
common
sorte
generally
of
these
new
factions
,
althoughe
ye
put
a
part
theyr
fayth
&
obedience
to
the
church
,
which
I
reken
no
small
mater
.
N.
So
god
help
me
then
dare
I
geue
the
verdyt
with
out
any
quest
,
that
they
be
starke
noughte
all
the
manye
of
them
.
And
to
beginne
fyrst
of
all
at
the
freers
,
ye
se
what
a
ras●all
rable
ronneth
aboute
the
country
with
bosomed
sermons
,
preach
ynge
fables
and
olde
wyues
tales
,
in
stede
of
the
worde
of
God
,
whiche
ar
redy
mates
to
associate
vnthryftes
in
all
myscheif
,
to
the
slaunder
of
christen
religion
.
And
to
speke
of
monkes
,
chanons
,
with
other
religious
possessioners
,
I
praye
you
what
a
ghostly
lyfe
lead
they
▪
geuen
holye
to
slouthfull
ydlenes
,
and
belyioy
,
in
eatyng
and
drynkinge
,
withoute
studye
of
Scripture
or
endeuerment
of
any
vertuouse
excercise
.
They
syng
in
theyr
quieres
wyth
as
great
deuotion
,
as
hunters
do
at
the
halowynge
of
a
foxe
,
hauyng
delyte
in
yellyng
of
their
voyces
,
and
crying
of
organs
,
but
no
swetenes
of
spyrytuall
melodye
.
Also
seculer
preistes
euen
as
bad
as
the
best
,
shall
ye
not
fynde
them
at
tauernes
&
dyshonest
houses
,
drynkyng
&
gowsynge
tyll
they
be
as
dronken
as
apes
,
nothynge
abashed
to
swere
blasphemous
othes
&
to
vse
fylthye
communication
.
And
such
as
be
curats
hauing
charge
of
mennes
sowles
,
are
there
not
many
of
them
blynder
than
betels
,
destitute
of
necessary
doctryne
with
good
liuing
,
whereby
they
myghte
edyfye
theyr
parysshons
.
It
were
to
tedyons
a
processe
to
rehearse
their
wretchednes
so
farre
out
of
order
,
whyche
all
the
worlde
perceyueth
&
speaketh
agaynst
it
,
and
yet
can
be
none
amendement
.
W.
If
theyr
wretchednes
of
lyuyng
as
ye
say
be
manyfest
to
all
the
worlde
:
it
shall
not
be
so
nedefull
for
you
to
declare
anye
further
thereof
,
as
it
wyll
be
expedyente
for
me
to
tell
of
these
newe
gospellers
whose
erronyous
wyckednes
is
knowen
to
very
few
here
in
this
region
.
And
surely
to
improue
the
vniuersall
churche
as
euell
,
because
many
of
them
be
lewde
:
it
were
no
lesse
madnes
then
to
sette
at
nought
the
old
testament
,
because
the
more
parte
of
the
children
of
Israell
were
euill
,
other
to
dispyse
the
Gospell
because
all
these
newe
factions
which
falsely
presume
to
be
folowers
of
it
,
are
heretikes
.
Among
whom
ye
shall
fynde
●enegate
freers
that
haue
caste
of
theyr
habytes
,
and
forsaken
theyr
relygion
,
whiche
haue
maryed
wyues
,
and
sone
after
scape
away
from
them
,
leauing
theym
in
carefull
desolatyon
,
ye
some
one
ma●ieng
.ii.
or
.iii.
wyues
in
dyuers
countreys
,
whome
they
haue
dysceyued
by
craftye
entycementes
,
makynge
them
beleue
with
theyr
gorgeous
apparayle
that
they
be
come
of
noble
&
ryche
frendes
.
And
of
these
are
there
manye
which
walk
ouer
sondry
prouinces
,
with
glosinge
speache
and
swete
tales
,
spienge
out
vnstable
people
that
wyll
be
waueryng
with
euery
winde
,
and
such
as
theyr
stomackes
serue
them
to
contemne
fastynges
and
prayers
,
desyrous
of
carnall
lybertie
,
and
can
rayle
agaynste
the
cleargy
,
caring
for
no
iurisdiction
,
and
when
suche
vnlawfull
meanes
fayl
,
geue
themselues
to
thefte
,
robbyng
of
churches
and
sedycyous
dysturbaunce
,
whereby
some
of
them
are
promoted
to
the
galows
,
&
shamefull
marter
dome
of
felons
.
Lykewyse
apostata
monkes
&
chanons
peruerted
vnto
theyr
sectes
,
some
bring
with
them
as
much
substaunce
of
the
spoyle
of
theyr
places
,
that
they
purchase
therwith
fayre
landes
&
yearely
rentes
.
Also
priestes
that
haue
made
cheuesaūre
of
theyr
benefices
for
.ii.
or
.iii.
C.
poundes
,
at
whose
commyng
it
is
a
worlde
to
heare
howe
God
is
magnyfyed
for
theyr
delyueraunce
frome
the
tyrannye
(
as
they
call
it
)
of
Antychriste
,
and
what
brotherlye
chere
is
made
with
feruent
reioyce
●
the
suffraunce
of
Christes
crosse
,
namelye
yf
they
haue
store
of
monye
.
And
soone
after
they
are
prouyded
of
fayre
wyues
in
safegarde
of
theyr
chastite
,
and
to
augment
theyr
perfection
,
wherby
some
of
theym
chaunce
to
be
so
vexed
with
deuylles
,
that
theyr
Gospell
is
not
able
to
charme
them
,
and
are
fayne
to
runne
awaye
in
libertye
of
the
lorde
,
ere
that
theyr
wyues
be
made
faste
in
the
bondes
of
our
lady
.
Besyde
these
howe
manye
in
Germany
haue
annuall
pensions
of
cyties
and
townes
for
tearme
of
lyfe
,
bownde
to
no
maner
of
seruice
,
whose
change
of
state
is
to
no
renuyng
of
spiritual
conuersation
,
but
rather
an
vnsacyat
luste
of
fleshly
fredome
,
euidently
tryed
by
theyr
vycious
behaueoure
,
ydle
lyuyng
,
&
disguysed
apparell
.
N.
Ye
maye
speake
manye
thynges
for
your
pleasure
,
but
ye
knowe
righte
wel
the
christen
relygion
standeth
not
in
outewarde
rayment
,
nor
I
can
not
se
but
as
good
a
soule
maye
be
vnder
a
seculer
wede
,
as
in
a
relygious
vesture
.
The
straunge
diuersitie
of
habytes
is
not
commaunded
of
God
,
nother
scripture
ascribeth
any
holines
vnto
them
.
W.
In
good
fayth
I
speke
of
truth
&
not
of
pleasure
for
it
is
to
me
muche
displeasure
to
se
them
suche
as
I
se
them
,
not
in
theyr
disguised
clothing
onlye
,
full
farre
vnsemelye
for
them
,
if
they
were
eyther
such
as
they
were
before
,
or
such
as
they
nowe
call
theym selfe
,
but
ouer
that
in
euery
kynde
of
all
dysordered
lyuyng
:
whyche
ye
let
passe
as
thoughe
I
had
founden
no
faut
but
with
theyr
clothynge
.
And
agaynste
that
ye
seme
to
set
at
nought
the
habytes
and
fashions
of
religiouse
people
,
callyng
them
straunge
dyuersities
&
thinges
nought
worth
,
because
they
be
not
commaunded
of
god
,
nor
that
scripture
ascrybeth
no
holynes
in
them
.
But
as
for
strangnes
of
apparell
,
relygyouse
men
vse
none
.
But
theyr
apparell
was
at
the
fyrst
deuysed
by
such
as
they
that
now
hate
religion
,
do
not
yet
denye
for
holye
blessed
men
.
And
now
they
cannot
be
straunge
,
when
they
contynue
styll
euery
order
his
olde
fashion
,
and
that
all
the
world
hath
loked
vppon
them
,
and
among
a
thousand
freers
none
go
better
appareled
then
an
other
.
But
now
vnto
the
other
syde
,
these
that
runne
away
from
them
vnto
these
Lutherans
,
they
go
I
say
dysguysed
strangelye
from
that
they
were
before
,
in
gaye
iagged
cotes
,
and
cut
and
scotched
hosen
,
verye
syghtly
forso
the
,
but
yet
not
very
semelye
for
such
folke
as
they
were
and
shoulde
be
.
And
thys
apparell
change
they
dayly
,
from
fashion
to
fashion
,
euery
day
worse
than
other
,
their
new fangled
foly
&
theyr
wanton
pryde
neuer
content
nor
satisfyed
.
And
where
ye
set
at
nought
al
straunge
diuer
sytie
of
habytes
,
in
whyche
ye
meane
I
wote
well
not
onelye
religiouse
mennes
apparell
,
but
also
the
garmentes
worne
in
diuine
seruyce
,
for
therein
I
knowe
youre
mynde
of
olde
▪
I
saye
these
gere
were
well
ordered
by
good
men
,
&
not
without
the
good
help
of
God
.
And
ye
can
not
fynde
that
they
be
dysalowed
of
God
,
but
rather
approued
,
in
as
muche
as
he
in
the
old
testament
appointed
vnto
the
preistes
and
mynysters
a
seuerall
dystynction
of
apparayle
from
the
common
peple
,
specyally
in
theyr
ministracions
.
Also
it
appeareth
by
the
storye
of
the
prophete
Heliseus
,
whome
the
chyldren
of
Bethel
mocked
and
wondred
vpon
,
that
he
was
not
clothed
after
theyr
comen
fashion
.
And
verely
I
holde
it
more
conuenient
for
relygyouse
persons
to
were
that
habytes
by
theyr
fore
fathers
institute
,
than
to
be
arayed
after
the
ruf
fyane
inuencion
,
of
many
Gospellers
in
Germany
.
N.
All
these
are
but
blynde
reasons
of
your
owne
fantasy
,
nothing
to
the
purpose
.
The
orygynall
in
stitution
of
relygyous
habytes
began
vpon
certayne
consyderations
.
As
thus
:
when
holy
fathers
lyued
in
wyldernes
,
they
made
theyr
garmentes
after
a
fashion
that
myghte
best
defend
the
sharpe
stormes
and
yll
wethers
.
And
some
that
gaue
themselues
to
bodely
labour
,
contryued
theyr
clothes
to
be
shapen
in
a
most
hansome
maner
to
worke
in
.
Also
some
of
them
wyllyng
to
exchew
superfluytie
of
vesture
,
deuysed
them
habytes
mooste
apte
for
warmth
&
sparynge
of
clothe
.
But
now
these
consyderations
faylyng
:
to
were
the
habytes
of
them
,
&
not
to
folowe
theyr
example
,
me
thynketh
it
mere
hypocrysy
.
W.
Then
maye
I
say
to
you
agayne
after
the
same
forme
of
argumentation
.
The
fyrste
inuentours
of
thys
newe
dysguysed
apparel
,
were
hethen
people
,
vnthriftes
,
fooles
,
and
myslyuynge
persons
:
nowe
ye
that
be
accounted
good
Christen
people
vse
the
same
,
where
as
ye
ought
not
folowe
theyr
lewdenes
,
therfore
ye
be
&c.
Notwithstanding
I
demaunded
ones
of
a
certayn
companion
of
these
sectes
which
had
bene
of
a
strayt
religion
before
,
why
his
garmentes
were
nowe
so
●umptuouse
,
all
to
poū●ed
with
gardes
and
iagges
lyke
a
rutter
of
the
launce
knyghtes
.
He
answered
to
me
that
he
dyd
it
in
contempt
of
hypocrisy
.
Why
quoth
I
,
doth
not
God
hate
pryde
the
mother
of
hypocrisy
,
as
well
as
hypocrysye
it selfe
▪
wherto
he
made
no
dyrect
answer
agayne
,
but
in
excusynge
hys
faut
,
he
sayde
that
God
pryncypally
accepted
the
mekenes
of
the
hart
,
and
inward
christen
maners
,
which
I
beleue
were
so
inward
in
hym
,
that
seldome
he
shewed
any
of
them
outwardly
.
N.
I
graunted
before
that
ther
were
some
light
persons
.
But
what
say
you
to
the
prouision
of
pore
people
there
,
suche
as
are
aged
or
impotent
,
&
that
beggers
be
not
suffred
to
craue
at
mennes
dores
,
nor
to
loyter
ydellye
as
they
do
here
,
but
a●
set
a
worke
.
I
tell
you
some
men
thynk
yf
our
sturdy
monkes
,
chanons
,
&
freers
,
labored
for
theyr
lyuing
as
we
lay
people
do
,
that
it
wold
be
a
meryer
world
than
now
is
.
W.
What
a
mery
tyme
it
wold
be
here
in
thys
lande
I
am
vncertayne
,
but
I
am
sure
that
in
Germany
among
these
newe
factions
is
yet
but
a
sory
worlde
&
lyke
to
be
worse
,
ye
saye
there
be
no
loytryng
beggers
,
and
that
is
trew
,
for
few
or
none
resorteth
thyther
because
they
can
haue
none
almes
nor
releife
,
excepte
they
wil
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
awaye
with
it
.
But
what
is
theyr
labour
?
marye
pluckyng
downe
of
churches
and
monasteryes
,
and
buyldyng
of
bulwarkes
&
walles
to
instrength
theyr
townes
agaynst
them
which
couet
to
reforme
them
.
And
here
is
a
doute
to
be
moued
,
when
suche
busynes
is
ended
,
howe
shall
they
be
then
set
a
worke
,
considerynge
that
in
other
occupacions
a
fewer
nomber
than
be
al
readye
were
able
to
suffyse
the
people
,
&
so
they
fynde
it
there
already
.
N.
God
wyll
prouyde
otherwyse
for
them
than
mannes
ymaginacion
can
comprehend
.
W.
If
their
wayes
lyked
hym
I
wot
wel
he
wold
.
But
sythe
it
is
no
pleasure
to
hym
to
se
them
leue
the
faythe
,
and
fall
to
heresyes
,
pull
down
churches
,
and
buylde
vp
bulwarkes
agaynst
god
in
defence
of
theyr
abhominable
errours
:
I
verely
thynk
that
the
wrath
of
God
wyll
worke
them
vengeaunce
,
and
sende
suche
men
muche
misery
,
and
abate
theyr
bulwarkes
to
the
grounde
,
as
he
abated
the
prowde
towre
of
Babylon
,
when
he
confounded
the
buylders
into
as
many
tonges
as
the
deuyl
hath
confounded
the
bylders
of
these
bulwarks
in
to
many
shameful
sectes
.
N
Wel
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
theyr
intollerable
labour
:
I
am
certyfied
that
they
come
from
it
as
ioyouslye
as
it
were
from
a
recreation
.
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
heuye
burthens
:
that
then
they
reioyce
in
sufferaunce
.
W.
They
that
so
haue
certified
you
,
I
pray
you
write
vnto
theym
agayne
,
and
praye
them
to
certifie
you
also
howe
manye
worketh
wyth
an
euyll
wyll
for
the
onelye
lacke
of
lyuynge
,
and
howe
many
runne
fro
their
worke
&
rather
chuse
to
go
steale
&
be
hanged
to
,
rather
than
to
come
to
so
paynfull
worcke
agayne
.
And
by
that
tyme
that
they
haue
certyfyed
you
of
these
two
sortes
:
they
shall
I
warrant
you
certifie
of
the
thyrde
tother
sort
that
are
so
gladde
of
suche
labour
,
not
fully
so
many
as
ye
reken
now
.
And
yet
I
thinke
verelye
that
some
such
are
there
to
.
And
I
would
muche
meruayle
elles
.
N.
Whye
so
?
W.
For
I
haue
knowen
ere
thys
where
men
haue
been
sore
hurt
in
frayes
,
that
they
whiche
haue
ben
soreste
wounded
haue
most
reioyced
,
not
in
hys
harmes
but
in
the
praysings
of
other
.
N.
Who
be
they
that
shulde
prayse
so
these
labourynge
folke
.
W.
Euen
suche
of
theyr
owne
sectes
as
wyi
not
labour
them selues
,
whi
chear
redier
to
encorage
other
men
vnto
suffraunce
of
deth
for
theyr
opinions
,
than
to
ieoparde
them selfe
the
lest
typpe
of
their
eare
.
But
now
to
your
obiection
,
that
ye
wuld
prestes
monkes
,
and
freers
shulde
laboure
as
other
temporall
men
do
:
I
holde
it
expediente
that
many
of
them
shulde
be
better
occupied
than
they
are
.
Howe beit
I
haue
hard
in
Germanye
greuous
complayntes
&
murmurations
of
hande
crafty
men
and
artyfycers
agaynste
relygyous
persons
,
whyche
haue
made
them selfes
worldly
,
and
learned
their
occupations
.
For
through
theyr
augmentation
,
the
profytable
gaynes
of
occupations
was
mynysshed
,
and
the
welth
of
theyr
lyuynge
decayde
,
so
that
many
were
compelled
to
seeke
aduentures
in
straunge
prouinces
for
defaute
of
worke
at
home
.
Also
I
haue
knowen
in
the
citie
of
Colen
,
&
in
other
places
of
the
low
countrey
,
that
religious
personnes
in
theyr
cloysters
fyndyng
them selues
with
labour
of
theyr
handes
,
as
spynnyng
,
weyuynge
,
&
makynge
of
lynnen
cloth
,
haue
bene
haynously
complayned
vpon
to
the
lordes
and
rulers
,
that
thei
toke
away
the
auauntage
and
lyuyng
from
the
pore
comons
&
citezens
:
wherfore
they
haue
bene
restrayned
from
takynge
of
temporall
peoples
worke
.
N.
By
this
rekeninge
,
seldome
is
a
chaunge
for
the
better
.
But
yet
howe
saye
ye
to
theyr
prouysyon
for
poore
impotente
people
?
W.
After
my
mynde
they
neuer
went
about
an
acte
that
pretended
a
more
Godly
purpose
,
or
a
feruenter
zele
of
charytable
compassion
.
whiche
ordinaunce
if
it
had
a
progresse
of
continuaunce
,
as
it
had
a
lykelyhode
at
the
begynnynge
:
were
to
be
alowed
and
practysed
of
all
Chrysten
nations
.
But
euery
occasion
wysely
pondered
with
due
circumstaunces
,
it
wyll
make
those
that
be
sage
to
stay
at
it
,
&
other
like
matters
,
takyng
auysement
before
,
least
thei
enterprise
further
than
thei
be
able
to
bryng
vnto
a
lawdable
ende
.
It
is
the
very
properte
of
comon
people
,
namely
of
these
Almaynes
,
that
what
so
euer
they
be
perswaded
vnto
,
agreable
to
theyr
affections
,
they
shal
be
ready
in
a
sodeyn
gyere
to
accomplysh
:
regardyng
nother
daunger
,
nor
commodite
,
though
sone
after
they
repent
theym
.
And
lyke
as
the
people
of
Israhell
brought
the
iewelles
of
theyr
wyues
&
chyldern
to
the
makynge
of
the
golden
calfe
:
so
dyd
they
brynge
their
iewelles
,
beades
,
rynges
,
outches
,
with
mony
both
gold
and
syluer
,
to
the
common
hutches
so
haboundantly
for
this
prouision
,
that
men
doubted
in
some
place
,
whether
they
had
poore
folke
sufficiente
to
consume
so
excedynge
heapes
of
ryches
.
But
this
dout
was
sone
made
a
playn
case
:
for
within
a
whyle
after
,
the
ardente
heat
of
theyr
lyberall
deuocion
waxed
cold
.
And
because
they
contynued
not
styll
in
bryngynge
in
theyr
oblations
:
the
hutches
and
coffers
were
emptye
ere
men
wyst
it
.
Then
whyles
it
was
compassed
what
waye
myghte
be
beste
taken
for
the
preseruation
of
this
ordynaunce
,
leaste
it
shuld
decaye
,
to
theyr
confusyon
that
began
it
:
some
gaue
counsell
that
it
shoulde
be
necessarye
to
depryue
the
clergy
of
theyr
goodes
,
and
to
dystribute
theyr
possessions
,
landes
,
and
rentes
among
lay
people
.
And
to
throwe
downe
all
monasteries
&
churches
,
makyng
coyne
of
crosses
,
chalesses
,
and
other
sacred
iewels
,
for
the
sustentation
of
the
poore
as
they
alleged
.
This
aduyse
with
hole
assent
of
certayne
prynces
and
comonteys
was
approued
,
affyrmynge
that
yf
so
infynyte
ryches
were
ones
in
theyr
handes
,
the
reuenewes
of
greate
men
shuld
be
so
enlarged
,
that
they
shoulde
nede
to
rayse
no
taxes
nor
lones
of
the
commons
,
but
rather
cease
frome
all
importable
exactions
.
In
lyke
maner
by
the
same
polycy
the
comons
mighte
grow
vnto
such
welthye
substaunce
:
that
beggers
and
nedy
people
fewe
or
none
shoulde
be
founde
among
them
,
whiche
ought
to
be
called
a
golden
worlde
,
or
a
tyme
of
felicite
.
N.
And
cam
it
not
so
to
passe
in
conclusion
?
W.
No
,
nor
neuer
shall
I
make
you
assuraunce
,
for
the
goodes
ar
wasted
,
&
no
man
can
tell
howe
:
ye
at
this
houre
the
prynces
and
lordes
of
the
cytyes
are
more
hungry
to
pyll
&
pole
,
then
euer
they
were
.
The
commons
also
in
lesse
welth
,
endutyng
more
greuous
oppression
then
euer
they
dyd
,
wyth
no
fewer
myserable
persons
then
they
had
before
,
all
thynges
at
out
of
measure
scarce
,
eche
complaynynge
to
other
of
theyr
calamities
infortunate
withoute
remedy
of
redresse
or
hope
of
a
better
chaunge
.
N.
Oure
lorde
forbyd
that
it
shuld
chaunce
so
here
.
W.
yet
lacke
there
not
in
Englond
that
wyshe
ful
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
whyche
happely
myght
repent
it
fyrst
of
all
.
I
let
passe
my
lord
cardinals
acte
in
pullynge
down
&
suppressing
of
religious
places
,
our
lord
assoile
his
soule
.
I
wyll
wrestle
with
no
soules
:
he
knoweth
by
this
tyme
whyther
he
dyd
well
or
euyll
.
But
thys
dare
I
be
bolde
to
saye
,
that
the
countreis
where
they
stode
,
fynde
suche
lacke
of
them
:
that
they
would
he
had
let
them
stand
.
And
thinke
you
then
that
there
wold
be
no
lack
founden
,
if
the
remanaunt
were
so
serued
to
?
Iwene
men
wold
so
sore
mysse
theym
that
many
which
speke
agaynst
them
,
wolde
sone
laboure
his
owne
handes
to
set
them
vp
agayne
.
N.
In
good
fayth
youre
wordes
make
me
so
amased
,
that
I
can
not
tell
what
I
may
say
to
the
matter
:
I
se
the
lyuynge
of
the
cleargy
is
farre
wyde
from
the
doctrine
of
christ
,
&
example
of
the
apostles
,
&
the
Lutherans
by
your
saying
be
inworse
case
,
both
destitute
of
catholik
fayth
&
good
christen
maners
,
wythout
anye
better
lykelyhode
excepte
by
the
meanes
of
a
generall
reformation
.
W.
Who
shoulde
be
the
auctours
of
this
reformation
?
N.
The
pope
&
other
christen
princes
.
W.
I
put
case
that
manye
of
theim
be
as
wyde
oute
of
the
ryghte
waye
as
the
other
.
N.
That
can
ye
tell
partely
concernyng
thys
Popes
holynesse
,
for
ye
were
latelye
at
Rome
.
W.
In
very
dede
I
heard
pyteously
of
it
by
other
mens
reporte
,
but
I
sawe
it
not
:
&
peraduenture
I
sawe
the
lesse
,
because
I
taryed
so
lytell
whyle
there
.
Notwithstanding
it
fortuned
me
to
talke
with
an
Italyan
,
and
in
oure
communication
I
spake
as
I
had
harde
,
that
the
pope
and
the
emperour
entended
a
reformation
.
Why
sayde
he
they
haue
begonne
already
.
I
asked
himwhere
.
Se
ye
not
quod
he
that
they
haue
destroyed
Lombardye
,
Italye
,
Naples
,
&
also
enpouered
Fraunce
,
to
the
ruynous
decay
of
christendome
?
Beware
sayde
I
what
ye
speake
.
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
destroying
the
euyll
chyldren
of
Israhell
,
to
th
intent
the
good
myght
prospere
in
theyr
places
.
Mary
qd
I
,
that
is
clene
contrary
here
,
for
the
good
be
destroyed
,
and
the
euyll
are
encreased
,
so
that
neuer
in
Italye
were
seene
so
manye
vagaboundes
,
theues
,
hores
and
harlottes
,
as
are
in
this
present
tyme
.
Well
sayde
he
,
yf
the
good
be
rather
destroyed
,
as
ye
allege
,
and
the
euyll
are
styll
reserued
:
it
is
a
token
that
they
haue
escaped
wyth
an
easy
scorge
,
the
dredeful
vengeaunce
of
God
,
which
remayneth
for
these
that
be
left
behynd
.
Howebeit
,
ye
rede
in
stories
of
the
byble
,
that
the
sinfull
world
was
fyrst
destroyed
before
that
ryghteous
Noe
was
possessioner
of
the
frutfull
yerth
,
blessed
of
God
,
and
the
abomynable
cities
of
Sodom
and
Gomor
vterly
subuerted
,
erevertuous
Loth
ascended
the
mounte
of
hys
refuge
.
Also
the
reprobate
people
of
Israhell
were
wholy
extincte
,
ere
euer
theyr
elect
chyldren
entred
the
lande
of
promis
.
Wherfore
construe
ye
as
ye
please
,
I
feare
me
that
the
reformation
of
the
worlde
shall
be
wyth
the
sword
of
vengeaunce
vppon
the
people
for
theyr
iniquitie
,
consyderyng
the
obduration
of
their
hartes
,
and
harde
necked
stubburnes
,
not
moued
at
the
wonderful
tokens
whyche
dayly
pronosticate
the
wrathe
of
God
to
be
at
hande
.
With
this
he
shranke
awaye
,
&
woulde
tarye
no
longer
.
N.
Peraduenture
he
was
afrayd
to
wade
further
in
the
truthe
.
But
beleue
me
yf
ye
wyl
,
wher
he
spake
of
the
destroyinge
of
euyll
people
:
I
wene
yf
Luthe
ranes
be
such
as
ye
make
them
it
were
the
redyeste
waye
for
a
reformation
to
kyll
vp
theym
quyte
.
W.
I
woulde
rather
wyssh
them
amended
,
if
it
may
be
.
And
as
for
kyllynge
theym
in
some
place
,
it
were
no
greate
maistry
.
But
then
in
some
other
places
where
wold
ye
fynd
the
people
to
do
the
execution
?
N.
We
shulde
lacke
none
in
Englande
I
warrante
you
,
for
there
be
manye
of
the
cleargye
that
woulde
be
full
glad
of
it
,
&
marchauntes
some
,
thoughe
many
be
on
theyr
syde
.
Also
ye
myght
haue
a
great
sort
of
the
commons
,
and
many
courtyers
,
though
some
of
euery
sorte
fauoure
Luthers
wayes
&
some
great
mennes
seruauntes
beare
men
in
hande
that
theyr
souereins
support
such
matters
specially
in
tauerns
,
marchaunts
howses
,
&
other
places
,
where
they
make
them selues
no
small
fooles
,
when
wyse
men
be
forth
a
dores
.
W.
ye
vnderstande
not
what
ye
saye
.
N.
Howe
so
?
W.
For
yf
we
wyll
putte
awaye
all
Lutheranes
and
all
suche
open
heresyes
,
we
muste
fyrste
putte
awaye
many
other
synnes
,
whiche
haue
broughte
those
heresyes
in
.
For
trow
ye
that
heresyes
the
moost
terryble
plage
of
God
,
commeth
not
through
synne
of
the
peple
,
prouokynge
his
yre
and
indignation
,
whereby
he
sendeth
amonge
them
false
prophetes
,
&
erronious
teachers
,
preaching
matters
accordynge
to
theyr
waywarde
appetytes
.
N.
yet
prestes
and
clarkes
are
the
bryngers
vp
of
heresyes
,
and
the
cheif
mainteiners
of
them
,
by
occasyon
of
Popes
,
Cardynalles
,
byshops
,
and
other
prelates
of
the
cleargye
.
W.
I
wyll
neyther
excuse
nor
accuse
neither
them
nor
other
.
But
I
feare
me
that
as
for
other
synnes
the
cleargy
and
the
lay
to
,
shall
not
nede
to
striue
therfore
,
but
maye
well
agree
together
,
and
parte
the
stake
betwene
them
.
And
as
for
heresyes
,
thoughe
some
of
the
cleargy
commenly
begyn
them
:
yet
yf
we
loke
on
olde
cronycles
,
wyth
experience
of
our
own
tyme
,
we
shall
well
fynde
that
there
hath
not
lacked
some
great
temporal
prynces
,
nor
a
great
nomber
of
lewde
laye
people
,
to
set
them
forth
,
&
support
them
.
Was
not
the
origynall
grounde
and
cause
of
M.
Luthers
heresy
,
to
do
pleasure
to
hys
Prynce
,
and
to
purchase
fauour
amonge
the
people
.
In
lyke
maner
,
Oecolampadius
,
zwynglius
,
Pharellus
,
and
other
mo
folowed
the
same
trace
.
When
princes
&
comonties
ar
first
bent
vpon
affection
agaynst
the
church
,
or
conceyue
any
straunge
purpose
contrary
to
Scrypture
:
then
immediately
they
fynde
at
hand
suche
lerned
persons
that
can
endeuoure
theyr
braynes
in
approuynge
theyr
lustes
,
makynge
the
whiche
is
vnlawefull
,
lawfull
,
which
say
that
good
is
euell
,
&
euell
is
good
,
callynge
lyghte
darcknes
,
and
darknes
lyght
.
N.
We
shal
finde
them
among
whiche
prech
suche
thinges
as
ye
cal
heresye
for
no
such
cause
,
but
preache
it
boldelye
before
great
audience
,
where
they
for
theyr
preachyng
be
brought
in
great
daunger
.
W.
Thoughe
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
their
examinations
?
N.
They
make
of
it
a
reasonable
cause
for
.ii.
considerations
.
One
is
to
th
intent
they
might
not
be
wrongefullye
oppressed
in
corners
:
another
is
,
because
they
would
that
people
shulde
bear
witnes
of
their
constancy
in
confessynge
the
trouthe
for
Christes
sake
.
W.
These
consyderations
in
theym
,
yf
they
were
true
as
thei
be
false
:
were
yet
of
small
efficacite
,
&
against
the
euangelike
perfection
.
As
touchynge
the
fyrste
,
God
promyseth
yf
hys
seruauntes
be
wronged
pryuelye
,
he
wyll
reuenge
them
openly
.
And
Christ
in
the
gospell
exhortynge
vs
to
suffraunce
,
byddeth
his
discyples
to
be
ioyful
in
persecution
,
saying
the
happy
are
ye
when
ye
are
belyed
,
euyll
spoken
vpon
,
and
extremelye
dealte
withall
for
my
names
sake
.
The
other
appearethe
to
be
an
excuse
of
vaynglory
,
couetynge
wordly
prayse
,
where
as
they
perceiue
that
people
fauourynge
theyr
parte
wyll
interprete
to
theyr
commendation
,
what
so
euer
they
say
,
though
it
be
agaynste
scripture
,
contrary
to
all
verite
.
Saynte
Peter
wylleth
vs
to
geue
accounte
of
oure
fayth
to
euery
bodye
,
and
that
myldely
with
allowlynes
.
We
haue
no
president
of
the
appostles
,
that
euer
they
disdained
to
answer
before
the
infidele
iudges
,
tyll
the
vulgar
multitude
were
by
them
,
or
that
they
requyred
assystence
of
greate
men
to
be
recordes
of
theyr
wordes
.
Wher
Wher fore
I
meruel
what
conscience
these
persons
haue
,
whiche
are
so
importune
to
be
examined
in
presence
of
rude
seculers
,
&
ignoraunt
people
,
when
they
answer
so
doubtfully
,
that
the
beste
learned
can
not
well
construe
theyr
me
anynge
.
And
in
Pryncypall
articles
,
wherevpon
dependeth
our
saluacion
or
dampnation
:
some
answere
so
nakedly
with
blynd
shyftes
,
that
they
be
able
to
brynge
vnlearned
people
into
erroure
of
things
,
wherof
they
neuer
douted
before
,
vsynge
euer
ouerthwart
speche
,
and
quaylynge
sentences
of
double
vnderstandynge
,
wyth
protestations
of
hypocrysye
after
thys
fashion
:
In
good
fayth
I
thynke
there
is
a
purgatorye
,
albeit
I
can
not
tell
whether
I
may
beleue
it
or
no.
I
suppose
that
confessyon
made
to
a
preiste
,
and
pylgrymages
maye
be
well
done
,
but
I
fynde
them
not
in
Scripture
:
I
beleue
in
these
words
of
christ
,
this
is
my
bodye
,
but
as
concernyng
his
bodely
presence
in
forme
of
breade
,
to
saye
any
thinge
it
is
aboue
my
capacitie
,
and
I
dare
not
meddle
with
so
dyffuse
maters
.
I
reken
that
I
may
beleue
the
doctours
of
the
church
,
yf
they
speak
not
agaynste
the
worde
of
god
.
&c.
To
vse
such
āvages
in
weyghtye
causes
,
&
to
put
in
question
a
fresshe
the
cases
defyned
by
generall
counsels
,
as
thoughe
we
were
vncertayne
of
our
beleif
,
&
new
to
begyn
agayne
:
I
repute
it
no
spyryte
of
truthe
,
sekynge
goddes
honoure
and
edification
of
theyr
neighbour
.
Nor
I
dout
not
but
at
the
day
of
iudgement
,
they
shal
make
a
more
seryous
aunswere
.
This
consideracion
is
also
as
I
haue
sayde
very
playnlye
false
.
For
when
these
sly
shyftes
fayle
them
:
they
shew
no
constancy
of
their
vnfaythfull
doctryne
,
but
falsely
forswere
them self
and
saye
they
neuer
sayde
so
,
the
hole
audience
detesting
theyr
periury
all
saue
onely
theyr
owne
sect
,
whiche
as
for
periury
pardon
eche
other
.
To
speke
of
manyfest
mysliuers
,
and
open
transgressours
,
whom
may
we
well
exempte
?
consyderynge
howe
prone
and
redy
the
hole
world
is
from
the
moste
to
the
leaste
,
to
declyne
and
fall
vnto
euyll
.
Our
faythe
whiche
God
hath
geuen
vs
to
buylde
good
workes
vppon
,
is
waxen
barrayne
and
fruteles
.
Charite
likewise
,
wherin
we
shuld
be
tryed
to
be
the
very
disciples
of
Christe
;
is
waxed
cold
through
the
excesse
of
iniquite
.
Amiable
con●oro●
with
christen
vnite
,
whervpon
all
vertue
fasteneth
her
fundation
,
is
fallen
in
ruyne
,
to
the
fre
entresse
of
hatefull
discenc●ō
&
lyberte
of
alvyces
.
In
euery
state
and
degre
,
y●
one
barketh
at
the
other
,
one
obiecteth
agaynste
another
his
saultes
▪
eche
of
them
farynge
other
to
be
causes
of
theyr
myseries
,
&
yet
neuer
a
one
fashioneth
him selfe
towarde
any
amendment
for
hys
owne
parte
.
N.
By
my
trouthe
I
deme
the
people
would
be
good
ynough
,
if
they
had
good
heades
.
W.
I
deny
not
that
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
into
euery
part
,
and
maketh
all
the
bodye
the
worse
.
And
yet
surely
,
if
the
people
be
euyll
:
the
synne
of
them
causeth
God
sometyme
to
send
them
heades
of
the
same
sute
;
both
popes
,
emperoures
,
kynges
,
cardynalles
,
bysshoppes
,
preistes
,
and
curates
.
For
it
is
the
synne
of
the
people
as
Job
testifieth
,
that
causeth
God
to
suffer
hypocrytes
sometyme
to
raygne
ouer
them
.
Hypocrites
he
calleth
them
that
represente
the
personages
of
these
estates
,
whose
partes
they
do
playe
for
a
countrnaunce
,
and
do
the
contrarye
in
dede
.
And
as
far
as
I
haue
redde
in
the
byble
,
all
the
while
the
people
of
Israell
were
good
,
obeying
goddes
lawes
,
and
sought
his
honour
:
God
gaue
them
gracious
gouernoures
,
vertuous
priestes
,
and
trewe
Prophets
.
But
as
sone
as
they
swarued
,
&
fel
vnto
ydolatry
:
he
sent
them
for
theyr
punyshmente
vngracious
princes
,
vycyous
prelates
,
and
false
prophetes
,
so
that
no
difference
was
betwene
the
people
,
&
the
prestes
,
nor
the
people
could
not
ymagyn
so
outragious
abominations
,
but
princes
and
prestes
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
transgression
of
goddes
lawes
amonge
the
people
,
redounded
fyrst
from
the
heades
,
by
theyr
pernicious
occasion
.
And
as
towchynge
false
prophetes
and
yll
prestes
:
God
him selfe
greuously
complayneth
vpon
them
,
shewing
how
the
people
are
seduced
by
them
,
to
the
pollutynge
of
hys
name
,
and
violation
of
his
lawes
.
Whose
enmious
wickednes
,
Ezechiell
,
Hieremye
,
with
diuers
other
prophets
,
declare
at
length
.
Dyd
not
the
Belial
preistes
,
Ophni
&
Phines
,
by
theyr
pestylent
example
,
and
le
cherours
lyuynge
,
corrupt
manye
one
,
vpon
whome
God
takynge
vengeaunce
,
they
loste
theyr
lyues
in
battayl
,
and
the
arke
of
God
,
wherof
they
had
the
cure
,
taken
by
the
Philisteis
,
xxx
.
thousande
fyghtyng
men
of
the
Israhelyte
people
were
slayne
in
one
daye
.
Likewise
the
chyldren
of
Samuell
whiche
were
iudges
of
the
people
,
not
en
suynge
theyr
fathers
steppes
,
but
set
vpon
couetousnes
toke
rewardes
,
and
peruerted
iugemente
,
by
whose
occasyon
the
people
were
moued
to
aske
a
kynge
vnto
theyr
desolation
.
Moreouer
the
storye
of
kynge
Saule
is
playn
,
for
whose
pryuate
disobedience
,
the
hole
lande
of
Israell
smarted
full
●ore
.
Kyng
Dauid
thoughe
he
was
a
blessed
man
,
yet
brought
vnto
folye
for
to
nomber
his
people
,
they
were
fayne
to
suffer
most
wofull
plages
for
his
offence
.
Manye
other
lyke
places
I
could
gather
out
of
the
olde
testament
were
it
not
to
eschew
tediousnes
,
speciallye
of
Hieroboam
,
whom
the
scripture
testyfyeth
expresly
,
that
he
caused
the
people
of
Israell
to
synne
.
Besyde
all
this
,
go
to
the
very
experyence
,
&
ye
shall
fynde
that
wheresoeuer
the
heade
or
gouernour
of
an
howse
is
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
verefyenge
myne
opynion
,
that
the
yll
conuersation
of
subiectes
procedeth
oute
of
the
euyll
example
of
theyr
heades
.
W.
To
begyn
where
as
ye
leaue
.
I
graunte
that
the
vertuous
example
of
the
head
auayleth
much
to
the
good
order
of
the
members
,
&
the
greater
that
the
auctoritie
is
,
the
more
strength
it
hath
in
example
,
eyther
to
profyte
or
to
noy
,
consyderynge
that
among
pryuate
persons
,
the
goodnesse
of
some
one
,
enduceth
many
other
to
vertue
,
&
contrary
the
lewdnes
of
another
,
bryngeth
manye
to
vyce
&
vngraciousnes
.
But
yet
can
not
ye
conclude
vpon
this
,
that
the
euylnes
of
the
people
cometh
first
by
the
example
of
the
heades
,
but
rather
as
I
haue
spoken
before
,
because
the
people
be
euyll
them selues
,
therfore
God
fendeth
them
according
,
yl
heades
,
&
gouernours
.
For
ye
must
consyder
that
god
hath
not
made
the
people
for
the
sensuall
pleasure
of
Prynces
,
gouernours
,
or
prelates
,
but
hath
ordeyned
them
to
the
weal
and
commodite
of
the
people
.
Ye
haue
in
Exodus
the
thyrde
chapter
,
that
when
the
people
of
Israhell
were
in
miserable
thraldome
vnder
kynge
Pharo
:
they
cryed
to
god
for
remedye
,
and
God
prouyded
them
Moyses
to
be
theyr
deliuerer
,
to
whome
in
gyuing
his
offyce
he
sayde
:
The
clamoure
of
the
chyldren
of
Israel
is
come
vnto
me
,
and
I
haue
sene
theyr
af
flictions
,
how
they
are
oppressed
of
the
Egyptians
:
therfore
approche
,
and
I
shall
sende
the
to
deliuer
my
people
ye
,
god
loued
the
people
so
entyerly
,
that
of
theym
he
chose
Bysshoppes
,
preistes
,
and
deacons
,
to
offer
speciall
sacrifices
for
the
clensynge
of
theyr
synnes
,
and
to
be
as
meanes
betwene
hym
&
them
.
Note
of
whom
also
toke
the
noble
&
wyse
men
,
&
made
of
them
princes
,
captauīs
and
gouernours
,
for
theyr
polytyke
conseruation
.
Agreable
to
this
,
the
stories
of
Judicum
make
mencion
,
that
the
people
of
Israell
,
longe
season
after
Josues
death
obseruyng
goddes
lawes
,
and
fulfyllynge
hys
commaundementes
prospered
in
peace
,
and
hadde
gratious
gouernours
.
But
when
they
fel
to
synne
&
ydolatry
:
God
gaue
them
into
subiection
of
theyr
enemyes
,
and
were
compelled
whether
they
wolde
or
not
,
to
serue
he
then
prynces
,
and
miscreaunt
idolaters
,
yet
notwithstandynge
,
in
middes
of
theyr
myseryes
,
where
as
with
a
repentaunt
hart
they
cried
to
god
for
socour
,
and
besoughte
hym
of
mercy
:
he
raysed
vp
among
them selues
certayne
captaynes
at
sondry
times
,
as
Othoniel
,
Ayoth
,
Gedeon
,
Sampson
,
and
diuers
other
,
whyche
delyuered
them
from
all
bondage
,
restoryng
them
agayne
to
theyr
libertie
.
And
where
as
ye
allege
the
chyldren
of
Helye
to
haue
bene
cause
of
the
takynge
of
the
arke
and
slawghter
of
the
people
:
I
beleue
verely
that
the
people
were
then
mischeuously
mynded
,
as
they
be
nowe
a
dayes
,
whiche
perceyuynge
that
the
i●
.
preistes
that
bare
the
arke
wherby
they
hoped
of
victory
,
were
slayne
:
they
surmysed
that
the
vengeaunce
for
the
priestes
synnes
was
cause
whye
the
arke
was
taken
,
and
so
moche
people
destroyed
,
&
vnder
this
blynde
audacitie
,
they
remayned
styll
impenitent
,
not
acknowleging
to
God
theyr
owne
offences
&
ydolatry
:
whiche
appeareth
by
the
returne
agayn
of
the
arke
,
where
aboue
the
nomber
of
.
●
.
thousande
persons
were
plaged
with
sodeyne
deth
.
Also
,
it
maye
be
verefyed
by
the
wordes
of
Samuell
,
exhortyng
the
peple
to
retourne
vnto
god
with
harte
vnfayned
,
and
to
caste
oute
all
straunge
Goddes
,
preparynge
theyr
hartes
to
the
seruyce
of
god
onelye
.
For
when
they
hadde
fasted
,
and
done
penaunce
,
not
imputing
the
fawt
to
other
but
to
them selfs
,
saying
all
we
good
lorde
haue
synned
agaynst
the
:
god
deliuered
them
from
theyr
ennemies
.
In
lyke
maner
,
the
misorder
of
Samuels
sonnes
,
was
not
so
greatly
the
occasion
whye
the
people
were
moued
to
aske
a
kynge
for
to
raygn
ouer
them
,
as
was
their
owne
diffidence
toward
gods
prouision
,
obstynate
disobedience
,
and
vnquyete
appetyte
of
ydolatrye
,
couetynge
to
be
lyke
other
heathen
nations
:
which
is
to
be
perceiued
by
the
answere
of
god
vnto
Samuell
thus
saying
:
Heare
the
peoples
voyce
in
all
thynges
that
they
speke
vnto
the
,
they
haue
not
cast
the
of
,
but
me
,
least
I
shuld
reygne
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
,
&
serued
false
Goddes
,
thus
do
they
also
to
the.
When
Samuell
hadde
shewed
vnto
theym
the
dyspleasure
of
God
,
wyth
the
manyfolde
myseries
and
calamities
whiche
they
shoulde
suffer
by
the
chaunge
:
yet
woulde
they
not
here
hym
,
but
sayd
,
that
nedes
they
wold
haue
a
kynge
ouer
them
,
as
other
people
had
.
Furthermore
ye
affyrme
that
the
people
of
Israell
were
punyshed
for
the
disobedient
transgression
of
kynge
Saule
.
But
all
thinges
consydered
it
is
to
be
thoughte
rather
that
their
wylful
frowardnes
agaynst
God
was
partely
occasion
of
his
fall
,
to
th
entent
the
sentence
of
God
spoken
by
the
prophet
myghte
be
verefied
.
For
yf
he
had
bene
an
vpryght
prynce
,
&
had
obserued
goddes
commaundement
:
they
shulde
haue
bene
in
such
felycitie
that
they
would
haue
iudged
theyr
petition
lawefull
in
demaundyng
a
kyng
contrary
to
goddes
pleasure
.
And
I
doubt
not
but
god
gaue
them
a
kynge
of
disposition
lyke
to
theyr
demeanoure
,
so
that
when
he
transgressed
gods
precepte
in
dede
,
they
dyd
the
same
,
at
the
last
in
wyl
&
consent
,
wherby
they
de
serued
to
be
punysshed
wyth
hym
.
For
God
neuer
taketh
vengeaunce
vpon
anye
people
but
onely
for
theyre
synne
,
whythe
after
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
confort
:
so
sendeth
he
to
the
euyll
wycked
heades
&
rulers
,
prouoking
his
wrath
to
theyr
desolacion
.
And
no
meruell
,
thoughe
Saull
fared
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
dyspleased
wyth
the
chyldern
of
Israhell
for
theyr
synne
:
permytted
Sathan
to
in
cyte
hym
for
to
nomber
hys
people
,
wherfore
they
were
bothe
punysshed
.
And
though
scrypture
expressely
say
th●
that
Hieroboam
caused
the
peple
to
synne
:
yet
were
thei
as
much
fauty
as
he
,
saue
that
because
they
commytted
theyre
ydolatry
vnder
his
supportacyon
,
he
bare
the
name
as
pryncypall
auctor
:
as
we
se
the
captayns
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
redowndeth
euer
vnto
them
,
whych
is
apartely
proued
by
the
oracyon
of
king
Abya
Roboams
sone
,
laynge
to
the
people
charge
that
they
forsoke
god
&
made
them
golden
calues
,
expu●syng
the
prestes
&
deakons
of
goddes
ordynaunce
,
and
instytutynge
other
after
the
order
of
hethen
ydolaters
.
Wherto
agreeth
in
defence
of
mine
opinion
,
the
generall
confessyon
of
the
people
with
theyr
vnyuersall
submission
in
knowlege
of
theyr
trespaces
,
recited
in
sondry
places
of
scripture
after
thys
forme
:
we
haue
synned
with
our
forefathers
,
we
haue
done
wickedly
,
&
haue
committed
iniquite
,
all
we
haue
transgressed
thy
commaundementes
.
And
surelye
as
the
worlde
is
nowe
crokedlye
enclyned
to
malyce
:
yf
God
sent
heades
and
Prynces
accordyng
to
thedeuelyshe
appetites
of
much
people
,
the
welth
of
this
region
wold
be
sone
subuerted
,
&
euery
state
brought
to
confusion
,
albeit
they
other
wyse
coloure
it
,
and
make
as
though
they
ment
none
harme
but
rather
much
deuotion
,
&
that
the
vnlearned
would
haue
the
Scripture
in
theyr
handes
,
for
none
other
cause
but
onely
to
preache
secretly
to
them self
for
lacke
of
good
preachers
abroade
.
But
then
in
dede
it
appereth
that
they
preach
to
them selfe
and
theyr
neyghbours
to
,
many
an
horryble
heresye
,
and
abuse
the
scripture
to
the
colorable
defence
of
the
same
.
And
then
are
they
also
to
,
all
Tyndals
bokes
,
whiche
for
the
manyfolde
mortall
heresyes
conteyned
within
the
same
,
openlye
condempned
and
forbydden
,
they
are
I
saye
yet
vnto
those
bokes
so
sore
affectionate
,
that
neyther
the
condempnation
of
them
by
the
clergy
,
nor
the
forbydding
of
them
by
the
kinges
hyghnes
,
with
his
open
proclamations
vpon
greate
paynes
,
nor
the
daunger
of
open
shame
,
nor
parell
of
paynfull
deth
,
can
cast
them
out
of
some
fond
folkes
handes
,
and
that
folke
of
euery
sorte
.
Howe
thynke
ye
then
these
folke
wold
haue
bene
stomaked
,
&
how
many
mo
wold
haue
blustred
,
out
with
them
,
yf
the
mayntenaunce
of
the
prynces
and
the
states
of
the
realme
(
whych
our
lorde
defende
)
had
bene
vppon
theyre
syde
.
And
where
about
wolde
they
then
haue
gone
?
aboute
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
abom
ynable
lyuyng
,
dysposed
to
no
goodnes
,
howe
hartely
they
wysshe
for
a
ruffelynge
daye
.
Beholde
euery
state
all
moste
in
euery
chrysten
realme
,
as
husband
men
,
artyfycers
,
marchaunts
,
courtyers
,
with
all
other
degrees
as
well
spyrituall
as
temporal
,
&
I
fere
me
that
ye
shall
saye
,
but
if
god
of
his
goodnes
amende
vs
the
soner
,
there
shall
come
to
passe
amonge
vs
the
ferefull
iugement
of
god
spoken
by
the
prophete
Osee
,
to
the
people
of
Israhell
and
inhabyters
of
the
lande
:
There
is
no
truthe
,
no
mercye
,
nor
scyence
of
god
in
the
yerth
.
Cursynge
&
lyenge
,
manslaughter
,
theft
,
and
aduowtrye
hathe
ouer
flowen
,
&
bloode
hathe
towched
bloode
:
for
the
which
the
yerth
shall
wayle
,
and
euery
inhabyter
in
it
shall
be
feebled
.
And
this
as
I
haue
sayde
not
one
contrey
fawty
,
&
another
fawtles
,
one
estate
fowle
and
deformed
and
another
pure
&
clene
,
the
spyrytualtie
synful
,
and
the
temporaltie
set
all
on
vertue
,
the
heades
&
rulers
culpable
,
&
the
people
oute
of
blame
,
nor
that
any
estate
maye
laye
the
hole
weight
of
Goddes
wrath
vnto
the
other
,
and
therof
discharge
them selfe
,
but
eche
of
theym
is
cause
both
of
theyr
own
harme
and
other
folkes
to
.
And
the
people
are
nothynge
lesse
fawtye
,
prouokynge
the
wrathe
of
God
,
than
theyr
heades
or
gouernours
,
nor
one
state
partyculerlye
cause
of
anothers
calamytie
.
But
all
we
together
haue
synned
,
&
haue
deserued
the
vengeaunce
of
God
,
whiche
hangeth
before
our
eyes
,
redy
to
fall
ere
we
be
aware
.
N.
In
this
poynt
ye
haue
ryghte
well
satisfyed
my
mynde
:
but
what
remedye
now
of
reconciliacion
agayne
to
God
?
W.
Forsoothe
I
knowe
none
but
onely
penaunce
,
I
saye
not
repentyng
onely
as
Luther
and
Tyndall
,
and
these
new
folkes
call
it
,
whiche
wolde
begyle
vs
&
make
vs
wene
that
we
nede
no
more
but
onely
repente
,
and
do
no
penaunce
at
all
,
tellynge
vs
that
Christes
passion
shall
stand
in
stede
of
al
our
penaunce
,
though
we
do
neuer
so
euyl
and
lyue
neuer
so
longe
.
With
this
false
doctryne
they
dryue
many
a
soule
to
the
deuyll
,
makynge
theym
neglygente
,
and
take
lyttell
care
or
sorowe
for
theyr
synne
,
and
so
muche
the
more
rechelesse
in
fallynge
to
synne
agayne
.
But
I
speake
of
pennaunce
,
as
it
implieth
both
repentaunce
of
our
synnes
past
,
&
the
the
sacrament
of
penaunce
,
wyth
●are
&
sorow
and
bodely
payn
,
&
afflyccy
on
taken
for
our
syn
,
wyth
prayer
,
almouse
,
&
other
good
workes
to
purchase
the
more
grace
,
&
that
we
shuld
with
recourse
to
confessyon
&
the
sacrament
of
penaunce
,
dylgently
prepare
our selues
in
folowing
the
example
▪
of
the
Nyniuytes
:
whyche
at
the
preachynge
of
the
prophete
Jonas
,
repented
wyth
ernest
purpose
of
amendynge
theyr
lyues
,
and
dyd
penaunce
in
deede
,
in
fastynge
and
prayer
,
humblynge
theyre
●owles
frome
the
moste
to
the
least
vnto
the
mercy
of
god
.
N.
wolde
our
lorde
that
we
had
such
a
prophete
sent
among
vs
,
to
exhorte
vs
vnto
penaunce
as
the
prophete
Jonas
was
to
theym
.
W.
That
were
lyke
to
the
request
of
the
ryche
glut
tone
in
hell
,
of
whom
the
gospel
telleth
,
which
desyred
that
Lazare
myghte
be
sente
to
warne
hys
brethern
:
to
whom
it
was
answered
,
that
hauynge
Moyses
&
the
prophetes
,
they
shuld
gyue
credence
to
theym
.
wher
fore
seynge
that
we
haue
holy
scrypture
which
expresseth
the
rightwysn̄es
of
god
,
declaring
howe
our
forefathers
were
punysshed
for
theyr
synnes
:
yf
we
refuse
to
be
warned
by
theyre
admonycyon
,
truely
we
wolde
be
as
neglygent
to
amende
,
yf
Jonas
raysed
from
death
to
lyfe
shulde
preache
vnto
vs
.
For
we
haue
saynt
John
baptist
a
greater
prohete
than
Jonas
was
,
cryeng
to
al
sinners
:
Do
ye
worthy
frutes
of
penaunce
:
of
whom
Christ
wytnesseth
that
there
is
none
greater
than
he
amonge
the
chyldren
of
women
.
Also
oure
saueour
Christ
hym self
,
of
whom
saynt
John
testyfyed
that
he
was
vnworthy
to
lose
his
shoe
latchet
:
preached
penaunce
sayinge
:
Do
ye
pennaunce
,
the
kyngedome
of
heauen
is
at
hande
.
And
in
another
place
of
the
Gospell
,
he
sayth
:
yf
ye
do
not
penaunce
ye
shall
all
peryshe
.
And
Saynte
Peter
his
vy●ar
here
in
earth
,
vpon
whom
,
and
whose
faythfull
confession
,
he
promysed
to
bylde
his
churche
:
preached
likewyse
in
his
fyrste
Sermone
sayinge
:
Do
ye
penaunce
,
and
be
conuerted
to
God
,
that
youre
synnes
maye
be
done
awaye
.
Also
saynt
Paule
the
chosen
vessell
of
God
,
preached
fyrste
of
al
to
them
of
Damasco
,
that
they
shuld
be
penitent
and
turne
to
god
,
perfourming
the
due
workes
of
penaunce
.
Confyrmynge
the
same
,
when
Christ
appered
vnto
the
.ii.
disciples
iorneinge
to
Emaus
:
he
sayd
that
after
his
death
and
resurrection
,
it
behoued
penaunce
to
be
preached
in
his
name
,
and
remission
of
sinnes
:
for
why
the
cause
of
his
comynge
was
not
to
call
ryghteous
folk
,
but
sinners
vnto
penaunce
.
And
the
aungelles
of
heauen
reioyced
not
so
greatly
in
nynty
&
nyne
iuste
persons
,
as
vpon
one
synner
doyng
penaunce
.
As
concernyng
the
olde
testamente
,
God
him selfe
promyseth
in
dyuers
places
,
that
asynner
shall
be
forgyuen
hys
synnes
,
whensoeuer
he
wyl
do
penance
.
wherfore
seig
we
haue
so
euident
exhortations
of
scripture
mouynge
vs
to
penaunce
▪
and
manyfolde
warnynges
to
correct
our
lyues
through
the
the
pacyent
suffraunce
of
god
:
happy
are
we
yet
,
if
now
atlast
ere
that
it
be
to
late
,
we
coulde
faythfully
saye
wyth
Job
perfourming
the
dede
:
lord
we
haue
hard
that
wyth
our
eares
,
&
therfore
we
reprehend
our selfs
&
do
penaunce
.
N.
yet
wote
I
not
well
what
ye
call
penaunce
.
W.
I
haue
ones
told
you
,
&
yet
I
tell
you
agayn
,
I
call
penaunce
a
chaunge
of
our
lyfe
in
castyng
of
the
synfull
old
man
with
his
dedes
,
and
doynge
on
anew
man
of
vertuous
conuersacyon
,
whiche
by
fayth
,
hope
,
and
charyte
,
and
the
good
workes
that
come
of
them
,
as
prayer
almouse
,
sorow
for
his
synne
,
and
payne
gladly
taken
and
susteyned
for
the
same
,
is
renewed
in
to
the
knowledge
&
fauoure
of
god
,
accordynge
to
his
ymage
that
made
him
.
N.
how
shuld
laye
men
come
to
this
knowlege
when
the
gospell
is
lockyd
fro
them
.
W.
The
gospell
of
Christe
whiche
is
goddes
worde
,
is
free
,
and
can
not
be
bounde
nor
kepte
from
any
Christen
man
.
N.
By
saynt
Marye
for
all
that
laye
people
maye
not
be
suffred
to
haue
the
newe
testament
in
englysshe
,
whyche
I
call
the
gospell
.
W.
O
ye
meane
Tyndals
Gospell
.
N.
In
dede
though
Tyndall
was
the
translatour
,
it
is
the
worde
of
God
and
the
verye
same
testament
whyche
ye
haue
in
latyn
of
the
euangelystes
puttynge
forth
.
W.
yetlerned
men
and
good
men
haue
founden
suche
fawtes
in
his
corrupt
translation
:
that
it
is
for
the
same
well
and
lawfully
forbiden
.
N.
if
they
be
good
men
as
ye
saye
the
haue
founde
it
fauty
:
I
should
reken
them
better
a
great
deale
,
which
wold
amend
it
.
W.
Though
it
were
amended
,
&
sufficiently
corrected
:
yet
wyll
I
not
saye
that
it
is
expediente
for
laye
people
to
haue
it
,
considering
the
time
as
it
is
nowe
.
N.
Whye
,
ye
sayd
that
the
gospell
maye
not
be
kept
from
christen
men
.
W.
No
more
it
maye
,
thoughe
it
be
restrayned
from
the
laye
people
in
theyr
vulgare
tonge
.
For
the
worde
of
God
,
whiche
is
the
worde
of
fayth
,
as
Scripture
sayth
,
is
nere
the
in
thy
mouth
&
in
thy
harte
,
to
th
intent
thou
mayste
do
it
.
N.
Than
I
pray
you
where
saynte
Paule
sayth
that
fayth
cometh
by
herynge
,
and
herynge
cometh
by
the
worde
of
God
:
how
can
we
haue
it
without
preachynge
or
information
of
it
,
by
readynge
of
scrypture
.
W.
Outwarde
preaching
,
and
lyterall
redyng
of
scripture
,
are
necessary
meanes
to
attayne
vnto
the
knowlege
of
the
spyrite
.
N.
Wherfore
then
is
the
Gospell
wythholden
from
the
laye
people
?
W.
I
sayd
they
be
two
thynges
necessarye
,
but
I
sayde
not
that
both
twayne
be
to
euerye
man
necessary
.
But
it
is
necessarye
that
euery
man
haue
the
tone
or
the
tother
,
and
so
haue
they
:
for
they
haue
the
worde
of
God
preched
&
expouned
vn
to
them
.
N.
ye
as
the
preistes
lyste
with
false
gloses
.
W.
Wyth
the
same
gloses
that
the
olde
holy
doctours
&
sayntes
haue
made
,
other
maner
of
men
than
Luther
&
Tyndale
,
which
now
corrupt
the
trewth
wyth
theyr
false
gloses
.
N.
But
why
should
not
the
comen
people
haue
the
scrypture
them self
in
theyr
own
mother
tong
?
W
Because
of
theyr
abuse
&
makyng
of
theyr
owne
gloses
,
&
many
also
for
theyr
vnworthynes
,
accordynge
to
Christes
commaundement
forbiddynge
to
cast
perles
before
swyne
,
or
to
gyue
holy
thynges
to
dogges
.
Dyd
not
saynt
Paul
forbidde
women
to
speake
the
worde
of
god
in
congregacyons
,
for
the
auoydyng
of
abuse
and
dysorder
?
Also
dyd
not
he
and
Bar
nabas
forsake
preachyng
to
the
iewes
,
because
of
theyr
vnworthynes
?
N.
That
is
not
a
lyke
case
:
for
the
text
is
playn
that
the
iewes
wylfully
resisted
the
worde
of
god
,
and
wolde
not
receyue
it
.
But
these
people
are
so
desyrous
,
that
they
putte
theym selfes
in
no
small
ieopardye
many
tymes
for
the
hauyng
of
it
.
W.
I
graunt
there
be
some
which
of
a
good
mynd
are
desirous
to
haue
the
gospell
in
theyr
mother
tonge
,
for
the
erudycion
&
confort
of
theyr
soules
.
But
they
that
be
suche
good
folk
may
be
wel
&
sufficiently
fed
with
the
gospell
punched
,
&
so
wyll
they
rather
chese
to
be
,
than
to
haue
the
scrypture
ronne
in
euery
rasshe
bodyes
hande
,
the
wold
abuse
it
to
their
owne
harme
and
other
mennes
to
.
For
well
ye
wot
many
ther
be
,
and
as
it
appeareth
in
Almayne
where
they
haue
the
scripture
translated
alreadye
,
the
more
part
,
and
farre
the
greater
multitude
,
are
not
lesse
vnworthye
in
receyuinge
it
,
then
were
the
Jewes
in
the
wylfull
resistaunce
of
Christes
gospell
:
whiche
couet
it
onely
for
the
libertie
to
be
free
from
the
exercyse
of
penaunce
,
and
doyng
of
good
workes
,
to
rayle
and
iest
of
other
mennes
fawtes
,
wyth
out
any
correction
of
their
owne
synfull
lyues
,
nothyng
conformable
to
the
vertue
of
the
gospell
,
whereof
to
bable
manye
wordes
they
are
not
dombe
.
Marke
it
there
substauncially
in
cities
and
townes
where
ye
se
the
people
most
ryfest
&
most
busye
to
prate
of
the
Gospell
whether
they
be
or
not
,
as
gret
vsurers
,
disceiuers
of
theyre
neyboures
,
blasphemous
swerers
,
euyll
spekers
,
and
geuen
to
all
vyces
as
depely
as
euer
they
were
.
This
I
am
sure
of
and
dare
boldely
affirme
,
that
sythe
the
tyme
of
this
new
contencious
lernyng
,
the
drede
of
God
is
greatlye
quenched
,
and
charitable
compassion
sore
abated
.
Shall
ye
not
se
there
a
cock
brayned
courtier
that
hath
no
more
fayth
than
a
Turke
,
&
lesse
christen
maners
than
a
Pagane
,
with
lordelye
countenaunce
&
knauyshe
conditions
,
whiche
takyng
the
name
of
god
in
vayne
,
shall
vnreuerently
alledge
the
gospell
with
scoffyng
and
scornynge
in
reprehensyon
of
the
clargye
:
where
as
hys
owne
●ewd
lyuynge
is
so
vnthryfty
,
that
ye
can
not
aspy
one
good
pyont
in
hym
,
except
it
be
vpon
his
hosen
,
nor
a
nynche
of
honesty
besyde
his
apparayle
nor
scantly
therone
neyther
,
beyng
al
to
hacked
and
iagged
,
wyth
dowble
weapen
redy
to
fyght
,
and
syngle
wyt
,
busy
to
brawle
and
chyde
,
more
lyke
a
furious
tormentour
of
Herode
,
than
apacyēt
dysciple
of
Christ
.
Shal
ye
not
also
se
there
a
marchaunt
perauenture
made
a
gentyll
man
by
promocion
,
ere
euer
that
he
had
a
good
yemans
condicyons
:
whych
gettynge
hys
chefe
substaunce
as
many
do
there
by
vsury
,
false
dysceyte
of
trewe
people
,
and
other
wrongfull
wayes
,
wyll
take
vpon
hym
to
preache
the
Gospell
agaynste
the
auaryce
of
relygious
persones
,
how
they
hauyng
theyr
bare
necessary
foode
,
ought
to
parte
the
resydue
of
theyr
gooddes
with
pore
people
:
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
festig
days
,
amonge
such
of
theyr
affynyte
,
which
are
not
so
wyse
nor
well
lerned
as
they
wolde
be
sene
,
yf
it
chaunce
them
to
haue
in
companye
some
symple
prieste
,
it
is
a
wonder
to
here
,
how
heis
apposed
,
&
after
that
theyr
spyrites
be
a
lytell
kyndled
in
glotony
,
howe
they
lasshe
out
the
Gospell
.
Than
begynneth
one
or
a nother
with
his
poty
carye
formalyte
and
holy
daye
granyte
,
to
moue
some
subtyle
questyon
sayng
:
mayster
person
howe
say
ye
to
suche
a
texte
of
Paul
?
And
if
the
priest
be
ignoraunt
for
lacke
of
lernynge
,
or
maketh
not
an
answere
satysfyenge
his
mynde
:
he
is
mocked
and
iested
vpon
with
scornefull
derysyon
.
Then
begyn
they
to
canuasse
the
scrypture
amonge
them
,
wyth
fyllynge
the
cuppes
&
●oly
gentyl
chere
.
And
by
that
tyme
they
haue
eaten
more
than
ynoughe
,
and
haue
dronken
to
much
:
they
be
redy
to
wade
forth
in
the
depe
mysteryes
of
scrypture
,
wyllynge
to
be
teachers
of
thinges
wherof
they
vnderstand
not
what
thei
speake
,
nor
what
they
affyrme
.
Then
are
they
full
armed
to
talke
of
abstynence
,
and
sobre
dyet
of
the
apostles
:
their
table
beynge
furnysshed
with
sumptuous
dysshes
,
and
exquysyte
deyntyes
.
And
where
as
their
cupbordes
be
reallye
garnysshed
with
costely
plate
,
and
the
tables
full
of
cuppes
and
peces
of
syluer
and
golde
:
than
make
they
exclamacyons
agaist
the
rych
iewellys
of
churches
,
as
crosses
and
chalyses
,
saynge
that
better
it
were
to
make
money
of
them
and
to
be
dystributed
vnto
pore
people
,
than
they
shulde
perysshe
for
lacke
of
socoure
.
Lykewise
when
they
be
seruyd
at
theyr
solempnityes
,
with
counterfeyted
curtesyes
,
in
bowynge
the
kne
,
&
valyng
the
bonette
,
hauynge
sewers
and
karuers
after
a
moste
stately
maner
of
seruyce
,
wherin
yf
the
offycers
fayle
neuer
so
lytell
though
it
be
but
the
settynge
of
a
sawcer
amysse
they
shall
be
rebukyd
:
yet
theyr
peuysh
pacyence
can
not
breake
the
honeste
ceremonyes
of
the
churche
to
be
lawdably
done
,
callynge
theym
folysshe
fantasyes
&
inuencions
of
ydyotes
And
though
some
of
these
new
Gospellers
occupie
trewelie
and
iustly
with
their
neighbours
in
face
of
the
worlde
,
behauynge
them selfes
charytably
:
yet
are
they
very
few
in
comparyson
of
the
other
,
whyche
be
raylers
&
gesters
,
vycyous
lyuers
&
fals
hypocrytes
with
out
any
conscyence
.
N.
As
for
hypocrytes
I
thynke
ye
myght
fynde
soner
amonge
relygyous
persons
.
W.
wyll
ye
beleue
me
.
I
haue
walked
a
great
parte
through
oute
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
coloured
hypocrisye
,
so
flesshely
lybertye
abused
,
vnder
the
pretence
of
fayned
holynes
,
as
amonge
many
of
these
late
inuented
faccyons
.
And
I
certyfye
you
that
ye
maye
fynde
mo
diuers
sectes
of
erronyous
opynyons
among
them
in
one
cytie
beyond
the
sea
:
than
be
son
drie
orders
of
religious
people
in
all
Englande
.
N.
Suppose
ye
the
gospell
to
be
in
faute
of
this
?
W.
Naye
,
but
the
abuse
of
the
people
hauyng
it
in
theyr
vulgare
language
:
for
whome
it
were
better
to
receyue
it
by
the
mynystracyon
of
faythfull
preachers
,
than
vnworthely
to
take
it
them selfs
.
we
haue
in
the
Gospell
that
oure
sauyour
Christ
fedynge
the
nomber
of
.v.
thousand
men
besyde
women
and
chyldren
,
fyrst
gyuyng
thankes
to
his
father
,
he
blessed
the
breade
,
brake
it
,
&
gaue
it
to
hys
dyscyples
,
and
they
dystrybuted
it
to
the
company
,
and
so
they
dyd
eate
and
were
sacyate
.
N.
Syr
accordyng
to
thys
the
people
shuld
holde
them
very
well
content
,
yf
so
be
they
had
faythfull
prechers
to
mynyster
the
word
of
god
vnto
them
.
But
I
put
cause
they
haue
none
,
or
elles
that
theyr
peachers
be
suche
as
the
prophete
complayneth
on
,
which
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
church
destytute
of
faythfull
preachers
,
wyth
the
whych
he
hath
promysed
to
be
continually
present
vnto
the
worldes
ende
.
How
be
it
the
fewer
that
they
be
,
the
more
fawte
is
to
be
imputed
vnto
the
people
,
because
they
aske
not
worthely
of
god
trewe
preachers
.
For
the
gospell
sheweth
that
the
people
came
fyrst
to
Chryst
,
and
he
per
ceyuyng
them
was
moued
wyth
compassyon
vppon
theym
,
becawse
they
were
as
sheepe
hauynge
no
hearde
,
and
so
feadynge
theyr
sowles
spyrytually
,
afterwarde
he
dyd
●epaste
theyre
bodyes
wyth
corporall
foode
,
wherfore
yf
they
in
lyke
maner
approche
vnto
Chr●ste
(
in
whose
name
what
so
euer
is
desyred
of
the
father
shall
be
graunted
)
he
wyll
also
here
gracyously
theyr
petycyon
:
for
the
hande
of
god
is
not
abreuyate
nowe
,
nor
his
power
other
wyse
mynyss●ed
than
it
was
at
that
tyme
.
N.
yet
am
not
I
so
satysfyed
wyth
all
the
reasons
that
ye
haue
made
,
but
I
thynke
styll
that
it
were
lawfull
for
laye
people
to
haue
the
new
testament
in
Englysshe
:
&
perauenture
wyth
alytell
leyser
I
could
lay
suche
scrypture
for
it
,
that
scant
ye
shulde
be
able
to
obiecte
any
contradyccyon
.
W.
ye
shall
haue
leyser
ynowgh
.
But
in
the
meane
tyme
this
ye
must
consyder
,
that
our
question
is
not
whether
it
be
lawfull
to
let
them
haue
it
:
but
whether
it
be
vnlawfull
to
kepe
them
from
it
,
and
whether
of
the
twayn
is
more
mete
and
more
expedyent
,
specyally
for
the
tyme
that
nowe
is
,
the
people
beyng
dysposed
as
they
now
be
,
and
after
suche
ensample
as
we
see
before
oure
eyes
,
with
suche
fruyte
as
we
fynde
growen
therof
in
Almayne
allredy
,
and
in
many
places
euen
here
at
home
also
.
But
if
euer
the
tyme
come
,
as
I
praye
god
it
may
,
in
whyche
the
people
shall
be
so
good
and
so
godly
dysposed
that
an
englysshe
byble
should
do
good
itheyr
handes
:
yet
might
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
bokes
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
pleased
,
and
I
trust
with
goddes
help
to
answer
you
so
effectuously
,
that
ye
shall
not
count
the
tyme
passed
in
vayne
N.
Than
fare
ye
well
tyll
another
season
.
W.
Oure
lorde
be
wyth
you
.
FINIS
.