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.

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.

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