Mores conscience / seinge they haue no deuocion vn to the poore which are as christes awne person and for whom Christe hath sofered his passion that we shuld be kynd to them and whom to visett with oure almes is gods commaundement / with what minde doo they offer so greate treasure / to the garnessinge of shrines / images and reliques? It is manyfest that they which loue not gods commaundement / can do nothynge godly. Wherfore soch offeringes come of a false faith / so that they thinke them better then workes commaunded by god and beleue to be iustified therby. And therfore are they but imageseruice .

And when he saith / we might as well rebuke the powringe of the annoyntment on Christes heed. Nay / Christe was then mortall as well as we / and vsed soch thinges as we doo / and it refreshed his body. But and if thou woldest now powre soch on his image to doo him pleasure / I wold rebuke it.

In the third Chapter he bringeth in miracles done at S. Steuens tombe. I answere that the miracles done at saintes tombes / were done for the same purpose that the miracles which they did when they were aliue / were done: even to prouoke vn to the faith of their doctrine / and not to trust in the place or in bones or in the saint. As Paul sent his napken to heale the seke / not that men shuld put trust in his napkin / but beleue his preachinge.

And in the olde testament Eliseus healed Naaman the hethen man in the water of Ior