mahometrie / but signes of the testament of god. And in them they red the worde of god / as we do in bokes / and as we shuld doo in oure sacramentes / if the weked pope had not taken the significacions a waye from vs / as he hath robbed vs of the true sens of all the scripture. The testament which god mad with Noe / that he wolde no moare droune the world with water / he wrote in the sacrament of the raynebowe. And the appoyntement made betwene him and Abraham / he wrote in the sacrament of circumcision. And therfore saide Steuen Actes .vij. he gaue them the testament of circumcision. Not that the outwarde circumcision was the hole testament / but the sacrament or signe therof. For circumcision preached gods word vnto them / as I haue in other places declared.

But in the tyme of Moyses when the congregacion was encreased / that they must haue many preachars and also rulars temporall / then all was receaued in scripture / in so moch that Christ and his appostles might not haue bene beleued with out scripture for all their miracles. Wherfore in as moch as Christes congregacion is spred a brode in to all the world moch broder then Moseses / and in as moch as we haue not the old testament only but also the new / wherin all thinges are opened so richly and all fulfilled that before was promised / and in as moch as there is no promise behinde of ought to be shewed moare saue the resurreccion: yee and seinge that Christ and all the appostles with all the angels of heuen / if they were here / coude preach no moare then is preached / of necessite vnto oure soules: How then shuld we receave a new article of the faith / with out scripture / as profitable