The.vii. chapyter

ye author sōwhat doth corroborat ye tr[…]uch agaīst ye heresyes holdynge agaynst ymagꝭ / & […]ecapy[…]elyng som what brefly what hath bē ꝓued / so fynessheth & ēdeth ye ꝓfe for his ꝑte.

ANd yet speke I nothyng of all ye good mē / and well […]nowē for good mē / & holy mē / & now saintꝭ in heuen / yt haue cōdempned your parte and wrytten agaynst you. And your parte therfore be so sore agaīst […] agay[…]/bycause they se theyr h[…]resyes īp[…]gned & cōdempned by theyr holy wryteigꝭ. Nor be[…]dꝭ thys haue I nothīg spokē of ye general coūsaylys cōdēpnīg your ꝑte by good & substa[…]cyall authoryte / cōprobate and corroborate by the hole body of crystēdom / led there vnto both longe before and euer synnys / thorow the s[…]crete operacyon of the holy goost / Who coulde neuer suffer (as your self agreeth) ye chyrch of Cryst to contynue so hole & so longe in so damnable ydolatrye as this were yf yt were superstycyon and not a parte of very faythe and trew deuout relygyon. Wherfore syth I haue proued you that the chyrch can not erre in so grete a poynte / nor agaynst the ryght faythe mystake the sentence of holy scrypture / and also yt these people that beleue ymages to be worshypped be ye very chyrch of Cryst / and that of hys chyrche the good and badde both dooth vse yt / and the good mē doth yt trewly / and the bad falsly / and that all the good men of olde hath allowed and vsed thys waye and condempned the cōtrary / whych hath also ben declared for false heresy by hole y• generall cōsayle of crystendom / approued by the fayth and custome of all the people besyde growīg in to such cōsent by goddis holy spyryte that gouerneth hys chyrch / I neuer nede to go f[…]ther or touch your textys or argumentys to the cōtrary. For thys syde thus proued good / yt must nedys folowe that the tother syde is nought / excepte ye haue agaynst thys eny ferther thyng to say. Whych yf ye haue neuer let to bring it forthe. For I wyll for none haste leue eny corne[…] of the mater vn[…]ansaked / as far as we can eny dowt fynde there in. In good fayth syr quod he I am in thys mater euen at the harde wall / and se not how to go ferther. Now I as[…]ure you q I yf I cowlde my selfe […]ynde eny ferther obiec[…]yō / I wold not […]ayle to bring yt in[…] But in good fayth I suppose we be waded in thys mater as ferre as we cā bothe fynde. And I am sure as ferre as euer Luther foūde or eny yt euer I haue sene y• eny thynge haue sayd or wrytten on that syde.