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hateth and can doo no miracles to further it / But to hindre
it / as he doeth with you. Reade the stories of youre popis
and cardenales / & se whether the deuell hath not holpe
them vn to their hie dignities. And loke whether youre holy
bysshopes come any other wyse vn to their promocions / then
by seruinge the deuell / in settinge all christendome at variaunce / in
sheddynge bloude / in bringynge the comen wealth to
tyranny and in teachinge christen princes to rule moare
cruelly then did euer any hethen / contrary vn to the
doctrine of christe.
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And as for the turkes and sarasenes that ye
speake of / I answere
that they were christen once / at the lest waye
for the most parte. And be cause they had no loue vn to the
trouth to liue ther aftir as ye haue not / God did send
them false miracles to carye them out of the right waye as
ye be. And as for the Iewes / whi they byde out / is only
because they haue sett vpp their awne rightewesnesse / as
ye haue / and therfore can not admitte the rightewesnesse that is in Christes bloude / as ye can not and as ye haue for sworne
it.
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ROMANS: 10.3:34/13–14, 43/4, 129/16–18
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And when he saith / in that they haue miracles and the
heretikes
none / it is a sure signe that they be the true
church and the heretikes not. Had ye gods word with youre
miracles and the heretikes doctrine were with out / then it
were true. But now because ye haue miracles with out gods
worde / to confirme youre false imaginacions / and they
which ye call heretikes haue Gods word confermed with
miracles / fyve hundred yeares to gether / it is a sure
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