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If I sholde here call Tyndale by a nother name, yt were no nyk name at all / and yet wolde there some then say, that yt were not honest so to do / & this wyll some such folke say, as in the vyllanouse wordes of his spoken by this blessyd sacrament, wyll fynde no faute at all. But me semeth surely that at the fyrste herynge of such a shamell worde spoken by the mouth of such a shamelesse heretyque by this holy sacramēt of Cryste: the hole crysten company present, sholde not be able to contayne them selfe from callyng hym knaue all wyth one voyce at onys.

Now where as there be for ye sacramēt both of cōfyrmacyon & of holy orders, open & manyfest places in holy scrypture,¹ aswell in the actys of the apostles as in the pistles of saynt Paule / by whych placys yt apperyth playnly that by the apostles handes layd vpon them whych were before baptysed, they had the holy goost geuen in thē / and by thandes of saynt Paule layd vpon Tymothee in makyng him prest, he receyued of god a specyall grace wyth that holy order / and lykewyse the deacons by the puttynge of the apostles handes vppon them in the gyuynge them that order:² Tyndale telleth vs in his boke of obedyence that all this is nothynge, and that the laynge of the apostles handes vppon them was but a maner of the countre, as a man putteth his hande here vppon a boyes hed and stroketh yt when he calleth hym good sone. were not the tyme well loste that were spent vppon Tyndale in allegynge holy scripture to hym, yt can fynde in his herte thus to gyue yt a mokke in stede of an answere? he sayth that the scripture and the sacraments be not both of one authoryte / but he maketh them bothe a lyke when he mokketh them both a lyke.

Of matrymonye.