beleue to be scripture / and so shuld I beleue them if they shewed me a false boke but when I haue red the scripture and find not their doctrine there ner depende therof / I doo not geue so greate credence vn to their other doctrine as vn to the scripture. Why? For I finde moo witteneses vn to the scripture then vn to their other doctrine. I finde hole nacions and contres that receaue the scripture and refuse their other doctrine and their exposicions in many places. And I finde the scripture other wyse expounded of them of old tyme then they which now wilbe the church / expounde it. Wherby their doctrine is the moare susspecte. I finde mencion made of the scripture in stories / that it was / when I can finde no mencion or likelyhode that their doctrine was. I finde in all ages that men haue resisted their doctrine with the scripture and haue sofred deeth by the hundred thousandes in resistynge their doctrine. I se their doctrine brought in and maynetened by a contrary waye to that by whych the scripture was brought in. I finde by the selfe same scripture / when I loke diligently theron / that their other doctrine can not stonde therwith.

I finde in the scripture that they which haue not Christes spirite to folow the steppes of his liuinge perteyne not vn to Christ Romano. viij. I find in the scripture / that they whych walke in their carnall birth aftir the maner of the childern of Adam can not vnderstonde the thinges of the spirite of god .1. Cor. ij. I finde in the scripture that they whych seke glorie can not beleue christ Ihon .v. I finde in the scripture that they which submitte not them selues to doo the