vnto my soule / when I had beleved it / as smoke for sore eyes. What holpe it me to beleue that oure laidies bodie is in heuen? what am I the better for the beleffe of purgatorye? to feare men thou wilt saye. Christ & his appostles thought hell ynough. And yet (besydes that the fleshly imaginacion maye not stonde with gods worde) what greate feare can there be of that tereble fire which thou maist quench all most for .iij. halfe pence?

And that the apostles shuld teach ought by mouth which they wold not write / I praye you for what purpose? because they shuld not come in to the handes of the hethen for mockynge / saith M. More. I pray you what thinge moare to be mocked of the hethen coude they teach / then the resurreccion / and that Christ was god and man and died betwene .ij. theves / and that for his dethes sake / all that repent and beleue therin / shuld haue their sinnes forgeuen them. Ye and if the apostles vnderstode therby as we doo what madder thinge vnto hethen people coude they haue taught then that bred is Christis body and wine his bloude. And yet all these thynges they wrote. And agayne purgatory / confession in the eare / penaunce and satisfaccion for synne to godward with holy deades / and prayenge to saintes with soch like / as dome sacramentes and ceremonies / ar marvelouse agreable vn to the supersticion of the hethen people / so that they neaded not to absteyne from writynge of them / for feare lest the hethen shuld haue mocked them.

Morouer what is it that the appostles taught by mouth and durst not write? The sacramentes? As for baptim and the sacrament of the body &