And when he saith / the scripture selfe maketh vs not to beleue the scripture but the church teacheth vs to know the scripture : for a man might reade it and not beleue it. And so I saye / that a man might heare you preach and yet beleue you not also. And I saye therto / that youre church teacheth not to know the scripture: but hideth it in the latine from the comen people. And from them that vnderstond latine they hide the true sence with a thousand false gloses.

And I saye morouer that the scripture is the cause why men beleue the scripture / as well as a preacher is the cause why men beleue his preachinge. For as he that first told in Englonde that the Rodes was taken / was the cause whi some beleued it / euen so might writynge sent from those parties be the cause that some men which red it beleued it. Master More wyll saye / that letter had his auctorite of the man that sent it / and so hath the scripture his auctorite of the church. Naye / the scripture hath hir auctorite of him that sent it / that is to wete of god / which thynge the miracles did testifie / and not of the man that brought it. He wyll saye / thou knowest the scripture by their shewenge. I graunt at the begynnynge I doo.

Then wyll he saye / why shuld ye not beleue them / in all their other doctrine besydes the scripture and in all their exposicions of the scripture / as well as ye beleue them / when they tell you that soch and soch bokes ar the scripture. May they not shew you a false boke? yes / and therfore at the begynnynge I beleue all a like. Euery lye that they tell out of their awne braynes we