The second chapiter

Now wyll I begyn with that poynt that I most esteme. For of al the remanaūt make I litle coūte. But surely loth wold I be to misse reherse any mannys reason agaynst whome I wryte, or to reherse hym slenderly. And in that poynt vndoutedly they se full well them selfe, that they saye not trew. For there is no reason that I reherse of Tyndales or of frere Barns eyther, but that I vse the contrarye maner therin that Tyndale vseth with myne. For he reherseth myne in euery place faintly and falsely to / and leueth out the pyth and the strength, and the profe that moste maketh for the purpose. And he fareth therin, as yf […]here were one that hauynge day of chalenge appoynted, in whyche he sholde wrestle with his aduersary, wold fynde the mean by craft to gete his aduersary byfore the day into his owne handes, and there kepe hym & dyet hym with such a thynne diete, that at the day he bry[…] geth hym forth feble, faynte, and famyshed, and all moste hunger storuen, and so lene that he can scant stand on his legges / and then is yt etheye wote well to geue the sely soule a fall. And yet when Tyndale hath done all this, he taketh the fall hym selfe.

But e[…]ery man maye well se, that I neuer vse that way wyth Tyndale nor wyth any of these folke / but I reherse theyr reason to the beste that they can make yt theym selfe / and […] rather enforce yt and st[…]ength it of myne own, th[…]n take any parte of theyrs there from.

And this vse I not onely in suche places as I do not reherse all theyr owne wordes (for that is not requy[…]y[…]e in euery place) but I vse yt also in suche places […]esyde, as of […]ll the[…]r owne wordes I leue not one syllable out. For such darkenes vse they purposely, & Tyndale in especyall, that […]xcepte I toke some payn[…] to set out theyr agumētꝭ plainly many that rede theym sholde ly[…]le wyt what they meane.

And to thentēt euery man may se y• these good bretherne lytle care how lowde they lye: let any man loke who so wyl / and he shal fynd, that of frere Barons I haue left out lytle, except a lefe or two cōcerning the generall counsayles, and I shew the cause why / & as for Tindale of dyuerse whole chapyters of his, I haue not wyttyngly left oute one lyne / & very few I am sure of ouer syght eyther, but haue put in all his chapiters whole, wheruppon any weyght of his mater hangeth, excepte onely in the defēce of such englysh wordes as he hath chaunged in his translacion of the new testament. And yet therin they cā neuer say, but that I haue put in all the strēgth and pith of his profe.

But all the remanaunt of hys chapyters, as farre as I haue goone haue I putte in whole, leuynge out noughte but raylynge and preachyng wythoute profe / and that but in one place or twayne / and where I so do, I geue the reader warnynge.

Now that his chapyters be whole rehersed in my boke, I suppose yt maye metely well appere by the mater cōsequētly pursuyng, if the reader leue my wordes out bytwene, and […]ede but Tyndales alone. Or yf any one worde or some few left out of chaunce putte that profe in doute / yet haue the brethern among them I warraūt you of Tyndales bokes inough, by whyche they may trye this trew.

And well ye wote yf this were vntrew that I say, some of thē could assigne at the lest wyse some one suche place for a sample. But that thyng neyther do they, nor neuer can whyle they lyue.