The.x. chapyter

The author in[…]yeth against this detestable artycle of thys vngracyꝰ secte / wherby they take awaye the lybertye of mannys fre wyll / and ascrybe all thynge to desteny.

SUrely as I say thys worlde ys eyther after the wordys of saynt Iohn̄ / Cotuspositus in maligno / all set in malyce / yt we be so prone wyttyngly to take so wronge a way / or ellys ys yt in a meruelouse blyndnesse / yf we can neyther perceyue by ye nowghty lyuynge of the persons that theyr secte ys nowght / nor can percey […]e by theyre doctryne that theyr secte must make theyr persōs nought / theyr heresyes beynge suche as ye haue herd. wherby euery mā that eny fayth hath and eny maner knowledge of crysten bylyefe / may well and surely perceyu[…] that Luther and all hys of sprynge / […] all those that fauour and set forth hys secte / be very lymmes of the deuyll / & open enemyes to the faythe of Cryste. And not onely to the fayth & manhode of our sauyour Cryst / but also agaynst the holy ghoost & the father hym selfe / and vtterly agaynst all goodnes of the godhede / as those that wrechedly laye all the wyght and blame of our synne to the necessyte and constraynt of goddys ordonaunce / affyrmynge that we do no synne of oure selfe by eny power of our owne wyll / but by the compulsyō and handy worke of god / And that we do not the synne our selfe / but that god dothe the synne in vs hym selfe. And thus these wredched heretyques wyth this blasphemouse heresye alone / lay more vylaynouse rebuke to y• grete maieste of god / than euer eny one rybaulde layed vnto a nother. For who was there euer that layde vnto a nother all the par[…]yculere euyll dedys of eny one other man / where these […]ybawldys laye to the charge and blame of god / all the malyce and myschyefe frome the fyrst fawt to the last / that euer was wrought or thought by man woman or d[…]uyll? And by thys gyue they wredches grete boldnesse to folow theyr fowle affeccyons / as thyngys after theyre opynyon more veryly wroughte in theym by god / than the beste myndys be in good menne. And that yt were therfore in vayn for them to resyste theyre synnefull appetytys. And yf they shall be dampned / yet they say yt shal be long or they fele yt. For Luther sayth yt al soules shal slepe & fele neyther good nor bad after thys lyfe tyl domes day[…] and thā they yt […]hal be dampned / shalbe dampned he sayth for no deseruīg of theyr own dedꝭ / but for such euyl dedꝭ as god only forced & cōstreyned thē vnto & wrought in thē hym self / vsyng thē ī all those euyl dedꝭ but as a dede instrument / as a mā heweth wt an hachet. And ye god shal dāpne all y• shalbe dāpned for his own dedꝭ only which hī self shal haue done ī thē / & fynally for hys only plesure bycause yt lyked hym not to chose thē as he dyd his chosē peple. whō they say yt he chose in such wyse byfore ye bygynnyng of ye world / that they can neuer synne.