ny as were nedefull. So that what soeuer we ought to beleue or doo / that same is written expresly or drawen out of that which is written.

For if I were bounde to doo or beleue vnder payne of the losse of my soule any thynge that were not written / ner depended of that which is written / what holpe me the scripture that is written? And therto in as moch as Christ and all his apostles warned vs that false prophetes shuld come with false miracles / even to disceaue the electe / if it were possible / where with shuld the true preacher confounde the false / excepte he brought true miracles to confounde the false or else autentycke scripture of full auctorite all ready amonge the people.

Some man wolde axe / how did god continue his congregacion from Adam to Noe / & from Noe to Abraham / and so to Moses / with out wrytynge / but with teachynge from mouth to mouth. I answere first that there was no scripture all the while / they shall proue / when oure lady hath a new sonne. God taught Adam greater thinges then to write. And that there was writynge in the world longe yer Abraham ye and yer Noe doo stories testifie.

Notwithstondinge / though there had bene no writynge / the preachers were euer prophetes glorious in doynge of miracles / where with they confirmed their preachynge. And beyonde that god wrote his testament vn to them all waye / both what to doo and to beleue / even in sacramentes. For the sacrifices which god gaue Adams sonnes were no dumme popetrie or supersticious