WHereas I Robert Sharpe , haue hertofore vnaduisedly , conceyued good opinion of certayne bookes of an aucthour , otherwyse vnknowne , saue onely , that hee noteth hymselfe by the Letters H. N. And was induced therevnto , partly by the straunge tytles that he gyueth to him selfe , terming hymselfe , amongest other names , A Prophet raysed vp from the dead : Specially by God appointed , and stirred vppe , according to the promises for this tyme which he calleth the last day of grace . Affirming that he hath receyued his message from the mouth of God himselfe . And partly being also mooued by the noueltie of the Doctrine , and great promises made , as though men might therby attayne to bée Deified , or made as God : Now vppon conference wyth the Godly learned , ( whereof some are in auctoritie ) being admonished of the arrogancie of the sayde aucthour , in vsurping the sayde tyttles , and of hys blasphemous sacriledge , in taking vnto hym other greater tytles , as , That he is the illuminate with the true light of the perfect being : Annointed with goddes diuine being : One whome God hath hominified him self withall , and who is codeified with God him selfe : ( For with such monstruous and vnused termes , he cloketh his blasphemies , as though he were made one with God , and God one with him ) Segregating vnto him selfe a priuate Conuenticle of simple deceaued men , ( whom he nameth the Familie or Comunaltie of Loue ) and detesting all wyse and learned men , whom he tearmeth Scripture learned . And also I being aduertised by the sayde Godly learned , of a great number of detestable Errors contayned in the bookes of the sayde H. N. And specially in those twoo wicked Bookes . Whereof the one hée nameth The Euangely or Gospell of the Kingdome : As though hée had brought a newe Gospell into the world , ) which Sainct Pawle forbiddeth , and holdeth acursed , though it were brought by an Angell from heauen ) And the other Booke hée calleth , The Declaration of the Masse . In the which twoo Bookes , and other lyke wicked Bookes , of the sayde aucthour , not onelye the vsurped auctoritie of the Bushop of Rome , and his Cardinalles , and the Sacrifice of the Masse , wyth manye other lyke wicked errours , but also diuers damned heresies of the Arrianes , Pelagians , and Anabaptistes , are maintayned : To the ouerthrow , of the true doctrine of our iustifi●acion , and fayth in Iesus Christ , and of all true Religion .

Therefore vnderstanding nowe my grosse errours , I doe here before God and you vtterly detest , and from my heart abhorre , as well the sayde Aucthour , wyth all hys arregant , and blasphemous titles , as the instrument of Sathan , by hym stirred vp , to seduce and beguyle the simple people : As also all his Damnable errours and Heresies whatsoeuer . And doe confesse here before God and you , that I am hartily sorye that euer I dealt wyth any such Books , or resorted to any secréet Conferences , assemblies , or Conuenticles , wyth those that are named The Familie or Comunaltie of Loue : And that thereby I haue gyuen so great offence vnto the Churche of God : for the which I most humbly and hartily aske forgiuenesse both of God and you . And doe promise faythfully neuer to meddle , with these , or any other such Bookes , or with that secte hereafter : But vtterlye doe renounce and forsake the same , and all other Errours and Heresies whatsoeuer contrarie to the Common , Nicene , and Athanasius Créedes , or to the holye Scriptures conteyned in the Bookes of the olde and newe Testament . And doe also forsake whatsoeuer is repugnaunt to the Doctrine nowe taught and pupliquely set foorth in the Church of England , which Doctrine I acknowledge and confesse , to be the true and Catholicke Doctrine , agréeable to the Canonicall Scriptures , and that the same of all Christians , ought to be professed , without respect of any daunger to the body , whether it be by death or otherwayes . In whiche profession , that I maye constantly remayne to my lyues ende , I doe most hartily beséeche you , to commende me in your prayers , to the great goodnesse and mercye of Almightye God .