Then he maketh no ieopardie to doo and beleue
whatsoeuer an
open multitude called godes church doeth and
beleueth. For god will haue an open church that can not
erre. For saith he / when the Israhelites fell to Idolatrie
/ the true church remayned in Hierusalem amonge the Iewes.
First I saye / if a man had no beter vnderstondinge then M.
Mores doctrine / he coud not know whether were the true
church / the Iewes or the Israelites. For the Israelites were in numbre . v. tymes moo then the Iewes and worsheped god /
though as present in the image of a calfe / as the Iewes
for the most part / present in the arcke of testimonie. And
secondarily he saith false. For the Iewes were faullen in
to open Idolatrie a thousand tymes worse then the
Israelites / even in their very temple / as it appereth by
open stories and bi the Prophetes: so that for their open Idolatrie /
whych they wold for no preachynge of the prophetes
amende / their
prestes therto resistynge the prophetes and
coragynge the people in their wekednesse / god sent them
captiue out of the lande. Ye and the people erred in
folowynge the scribes and phareses and the
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