wother wise thynke then that they were ordeyned to iustifie and that I shuld be holy therby / acordynge to the popis doctrine / as though god were better pleased when I sprinkle my selfe with water or sett vpp a candle before a blocke / then iff I fedde or clothed or holpe at his nede him / whom he so tenderly loueth that he gaue his awne sonne vn to the deeth for him / and commaunded me to loue him as my selfe?

And when the people beganne to runne that waye / the prelates were glad & holpe to heue aftir with sotle allegories & falsifienge the scripture / & went & halowed the ceremonies / to make them moare worshepful / that the laye people shuld haue them in greater estimacion & honoure / & be afrayde to twich them for reuerence vn to the holy charme that was saide ouer them / & affirmed also that christes deeth had purchased soch grace vn to the ceremonies to forgeue sinne & to iustifye. O monstre / Christes deeth purchased grace for mans soule / to repent of euell & to beleue in Christ for remission of synne / & to loue the lawe of god and his neyboure as him selfe / which is the true worshepynge of god in the spirite / & he died not to purchesse soch honoure vn to vnsensible thynges / that man to his dishonoure / shuld doo them honourable seruice & receaue his saluacion of them.

This I haue declared vn to you / that ye mighte se & fele euery thinge sensibly. For I entend not to leade you in darkenesse. Nether though twise .ij. cranes make not .iiij. wild gees / wold I therfore that ye shuld beleue that twise .ij. made not .iiij. Nether entend I to proue vn to you that Paules steple is the cause whi temes is broke in about Erith / or that teynterden steple is the cause of the decaye of sandwich hauen as Master Mo