cepte thou bye it out of the pope. And if thou aske by what meanes the pope geueth soch pardon. They answere out of the merites of christ. And thus at the last they graunt agenst them selues / that Christ hath not only deserued for vs the remission of oure synnes / but also the forgeuenesse of that grosse and fleshly imagined purgatory / saue thou must by it out of the pope. And with soch tradicions they toke awaye the keye of knowlege and stopped vpp the kingdome of heuen that no man coude entre in.

And as I said / they taught the people to beleue in the dedes of the ceremonyes whych god ordeyned not to iustifie but to be signes of promises by which they that beleued were iustified. But the phareses put out the significacions and quenched the faith and taught to be iustified by the worke / as oures haue serued vs.

For oure sacramentes were onse but signes partely of what we shulde beleue / to stere vs vp vn to faith / and partely what we shuld doo / to stere vs vpp to doo the law of god / and were not workes to iustifie.

Now make this reason vn to Ihon and vn to many prophetes that went before him & did as he did / ye and vn to Christ him selfe and his appostles / and thou shalt finde them all heretikes / and the scribes and phareses good men / iff that reason be good. Therfore this wise thou maist answere. No thankes vn to the heedes of that church that the scripture was kepte / but vn to the mercie of god. For as they had destroyed the right sens of it for their lucre sake / even so wold they haue destroyed it also had they coude / rather then the people shuld haue come vn to the right vnderstondinge of it / as they slew