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In the first chapter ye may not trie the doctrine of the
spiritualtie by the scripture: But what they saye / that beleue
vndoutedly and by that trie the scripture. And if thou finde the
playne contrary in the scripture / thou maist not beleue the
scripture / but seke a glose
and an allegorie to make them agre. As when the pope
saith / ye be iustified by the workes of the ceremonies and
sacramentes and so forth / and the scripture saith / that we be
iustified at the repentaunce
of the hert thorow Christes bloude. The first is
true playne / as the pope saith it and as it stondeth in his
texte / but the second is false as it appereth vn to thine
vnderstandinge and the literall sens that kylleth . Thou must
therfore beleue the pope and for Christes doctrine seke an
allegorie and a misticall sens: that is / thou must leaue the
clere light and walke in the miste. And yet Christ
and his appostles
for all their miracles required not to be beleued
with out scripture / as thou maist se Ihon .v. and Actes .xvij.
and bi their diligent alleginge of scripture thorow out all the
new testament.
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