When the greate multitude that be called and not
chosen / Caim / Ismael / Esau and carnall Israel that serue
God night and daye with bodyly seruice and holy workes soch
as they were wont to serue their Idoles with all / behold
litle flocke that they come not forth in the seruice of god
/ they rore out / where art thou? whi comest thou
not forth & takest holy watere? wherfore
saith litle flocke. To put awaye thy sinnes. Nay brethern /
God forbid that ye shuld so thinke / Christes bloud only
washeth awaye the synnes of all that
repent and beleue. Fire / salt / water / bred /
oyle be bodyly
thynges / geuen vn to man for his necessite and
to helpe his brother with / & god that is a spirite can
not be serued therwith. Nether can soch thinges enter in to
the soule to purge hir. For gods worde only is hir
purgacion. No saye they / are not soch thinges halowed. And
saye we not in the halowenge of them that
whosoeuer is sprinkled
with the water or eateth of the bred / shall
receaue health of soule and body? Sir the blessynges
promised vnto Abraham for all nacions are in christ / and
out of his bloud we must fett them / and his word is the
breed / salt and water of oure soules. God hath geuen you no power to geue thorow youre charmes soch vertue vn to vnsensible creatures / which he hath halowed him selfe and made them
all
cleane (for the bodyly vse of them that beleue)
thorow his worde of promese and permission and oure thankes
geuinge. God saith / if thou beleue saynt Ihons Gospell /
thou shalt be saued / and not for the beringe of it aboute
the with so many crosses /
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