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the tyme that he readeth the gospell (and else not) that there
shall no mischaunce happen them that daye / because only of
those crosses. And where he shuld crosse him selfe / to be
armed and to make him silfe stronge to beare the crosse with
Christe / he crosseth him selfe to driue the crosse from him /
and blesseth him selfe with a crosse from the crosse. And if he
leaue it vndone / he thynketh it no small synne / and that god
is hyly displeased with him and if any misfortune chaunce /
thinketh it is therfore / which is also Idolatrie and not gods
worde. And soch is the confidence in the place or image or what
soeuer bodyly obseruaunce it be: soch is S. Agathes
letter written in the gospell tyme. And soch are the crosses on
palmesondaye made in the passion tyme. And soch is the beryng
of holy waxe aboute a man. And soch is that some hange apece of
S. Ihons gospell aboute their neckes. And soch is to beare the
names of god with crosses betwene ech name aboute them. Soch is
the sayenge of gospels vn to wemen in childbed. Soch is the
limeteriers sayenge of in principio erat verbum from housse to
housse. Soch is the sayenge of gospells
to the corne in the feld in the procession weke
that it shuld the better growe. And soch is holy bred holy
water and seruinge of all ceremonies and sacramentes in
generall with out significacion. And I praye you how is it
possible that the people can worshepe images / reliques /
ceremonies and sacramentes / saue supersticiously / so longe as
they know not the true meaninge / nether wil the prelates sofre
any man to tell them: yee and the very meanynge of some and right
vse no man can tell?
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