But assone as the generacion of them that
saw the miracles
of god were deed / they fell to Idolatrie immediatly
as thou seist in the bible. And god when he had delyuered them
in to captiuite for to chastise their wekednesse / stered them
vpp a prophete euer moare / to call them vn to his testament
agayne. And so he did wellnye an hundred tymes / I suppose /
yer Christ came / for they neuer
bode any space in the right faith. And agenst the comynge of
Christ the scribes / Phareses / Caiphas / Anna / and the elders
/ were crepte vpp in to the sete of Moses / Aaron and the holy
prophetes and patriarkes and succeded them linially and had the
scripture of god but euen in captiuite / to make marchaundice of
it and to abvse it vn to their awne glorie & profitt. And
though they kepte the people from outward Idolatrie of
worshepynge of images with the hethen: yet they brought them in
to a worse inward Idolatrie of a false fayth
& trust in their awne dedes and in vayne
tradicions of their awne
faynynge. And they had put out the significacions
of all the ceremonies and sacramentes of the olde testament and
taught the people to
beleue in the workes selfe / and had corrupte the
scripture with false gloses. As thou maist se in the gospell /
how Christ warneth his disciples to be warre of the leuen of
the phareses which was their false
doctrine and gloses. And in a nother place he
rebuked the scribes
and the phareses sayenge: wo be to them / because
they had taken awaye the keye of knowlege and had shutt vpp the
kingdome of
heven and neyther wold entre in them selues ner
sofre them that wolde. How had they shutt it vpp? verely with
their tradicions and false gloses whych
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