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It appereth well that the holy goost accordynge to the wordes of our sauyour at his laste souper, whyche wordes Tyndale wold falsely wreste a wrye / dyd rebuke the Iewes and the gentyles for lacke of iudgement, and that he taught the chyrch of Cryste the true iudgement / by whych euer synnys Crystes dayes by the iudgement of holy sayntes and all good crysten people bysyde, such thynges as now Luther & Tyndale and fxere Huskyn do teache, haue ben alway iudged for heresyes. And this is open afore euery mānes yies / excepte we wold wyllyngly captyuate our vnderstandynge to byleue Luthers lyes[…] And therfore those that folow them of theyr ignoraunce / haue none excuse when they se agaynst the hole consent of crystendome so many hundred yeres contynewed, foure our fyue fond frerys runne oute of relygyō and lyuynge in lechery, take vppon them selfe to preche and saye to the people of them selfe, we be the spyrytuales, we serche the botome of goddes secretes, we serch the causes of goddes cōmaundemēt, we vnderstande the scrypture in his ryght sen[…]e / and all that haue ben called holy doctours & interpreters byfore our dayes, were eyther false or folys, and haue eyther of euyll wyll or of ignoraunce brought all crysten nacyons oute of the ryght fayth / tyll now that god hath of hys hygh goodnes sent vs & our wyues to preche fayth, and teche heresye, and shew lechery / to torne the worlde to grace.
Now he that wolde in the declaracyon and vnderstandynge of the scrypture of Cryste and hys apostels, byleue suche a few flesshly blynde apostatas agaynst so many holy blessyd doctours and sayntes: what excuse coude hys ignorans haue afore god? were not he a very oxe & an asse wyth out wyt or vnderstandyng?
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