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we that it is the scripture of god / aske them how Ihon Baptiste
knew and other prophetes which god stered vpp in all soch times
as the scripture was in like captiuite vnder ypocrites? Did Ihon
beleue that the scribes / phareses and hie prestes were the
true church of god / and had his spirite and coude not erre?
who taught the egles to spie out their praye? euen so the
children of god spie out their father and Christes
electe spie out their lorde / and trace out the
pathes of his fete and folowe / ye though he goo vppon the
playne and liquide water which will receaue no steppe: and yet
there they find out his foote /
his electe know him / but the world knoweth him not
Ihon .1. If the
world know him not / and thou call the world pride /
wrath / envie /
couetousnesse / slowth / glotonnye and lecherie /
then our spiritualtie
know him not. Christes shepe heare the voyce of
Christ Ihon .x. where the world of ypocrites as they know him
not / even so the wolues heare not his voyce / but compell the
scripture to heare them
and to speake what they luste. And therfore excepte
the lorde of Sabaoth had left vs seed / we had bene all as
Sodom and Gommor said
Esaias in his first chapter. And even so saide
Paule in his tyme. And
even so saye we in oure tyme / that the lord of the
hostes hath saued
him seed and hath gathered him a flocke to whom he
hath geuen eares to heare / that the ypocritish wolues can not
heare / and eyes to se / that the blynde leadars of the blynd
can not se / and an hert to vnderstonde / that the generacion
of poysoned vipers can nether vnderstonde ner knowe.
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