The.v. chapyter

The author sheweth & cōcludeth that thys comen knowē multytude of cry[…] ̄ nacyōs not cut of nor fallē of by heresy[…]s / be the very chyrch of Cryst good men and bad together.

ANd fynally to put out of questiō which is Crystꝭ very chyrch […]yth yt is agr[…]ed bytwene vs & graū t[…]d thorow crys[…]endom / & a conclusyō very trew / yt by the chyrch we know ye scrypture / whych chyrch is yt by whych ye knowe […]he scrypture? It is not this cōpany and congregacyon / of all these nacyons / that wythout faccions taken & precysyon from the remenaunt / pro […]es[…]e ye name & fayth of Cryst? By thys chyrch know w[…] the scrypture / & thys is the very chyrch / and thy[…] hath […]gō at Cryst & hath had hym for theyr heed and saynt Peter hys vycar after hym and heed vnder hym / & alway synnys the succes[…]ours of hym contynually / & h[…]ue h[…]d hys holy fayth and hys blyssed sacramētys & hys holy scryptures delyuered / kep[…] and cōserued therin by god and hys holy spyryte. And all be yt som nacyōs fal away / yet lyke wyse as how many bowys so euer fall from ye tre / though they fall more than be left theron / yet th[…]y make no dowte whych is ye very tre / all though eche of theym were plāted agayne in a nother place & grew to a gretter thā ye stock he came fyrst of / ryght so whyle we se & wel know / yt all ye cōpanyes & sectys of heretyques & scysmatyques how grete soeuer thei grow cam out of this chirch yt I spak of / we know euermore yt ye heretiques be they yt be seuered / & ye chirch ye stocke that all they came out of. And syth that onely the chyrch of Cryst is ye vyne that Cryst spake of in ye gospell / whyche he taketh for, hys body mystycall / and that euery braunche seuered frō ye tre leseth hys lyuely nouryshīg / we must nedys well know yt all these braunches of heretyques fallen frome the chyrch the vyne of Crystys mystycall body / seme they neuer so fresshe & gr[…]ne / be yet in dede but wytherlyngꝭ that wyther and shall dry vp / able to seru[…] for nothyng but for the fyre.