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For as they haue destroyed the right sens of it with their leuen
/ and as they destroye dayly the trewe preachers of it / and as
they kepe it from the laye people / that they shuld
not se how they iugle
with it / even so wolde they destroye it also / coude
they brynge it aboute / rather then we shuld come by the true
vnderstondynge of
it were it not that god prouided other wise for vs.
For they haue put the stories that shuld in many thynges helpe
vs / cleane out of the waye / as nye as they coude. They haue
corrupte the legend and hues all most of all sayntes. They haue
fayned false bokes and put them forth / some in the name of S.
Hierome / some in the name of saynt Augustine / in the name of
S. Ciprian / S. Deonise & other holy
men. Which are proued none of theirs / partly by the
stile & latine / & partly by autenticke stories. And as
the Iewes haue sett vpp a boke
of tradicions called talmud / to destroye the sens
of the scripture / Vn to whych they geue faith & vn to the
scripture none at all be it
never so playne / but saye it can not be
vnderstonde / saue by that
talmud: even so haue oures set vpp their dunce /
their Thomas & a
thousand like draffe / to stablish their lies / thorow
falsifienge the
scripture / & saye that it can not be vnderstonde
with out them / be it never so playne. And if a man allege an
holy doctoure agenst them
they glose him out as they doo the scripture / or
will not heare / or
saye the church hath other wise determined.
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