ue at church / and that my prayars were not hearde as wel elsewhere / If I prayed with like feruentnesse and stronge faith / is a false lye.

And when he speaketh of the presence of god in the temple. I answere that the prophetes testified / how that he dwelt not there / and so doeth Paul Actes .xvij. and so doeth Steuen Actes .vij. and Salomon .iij. Of the kinges .viij. And no doute as the mad Iewes ment / he dwelt not there / ner as we moare mad suppose also. But he dwelled there only in his signes sacramentes / and testimonies which preached his worde vn to the people. And finally for their false confidence in the temple / god destroyed it. And no doute for oure false faith in visitynge the monumentes of Christe / therfore hath god also destroyed them and geuen the place vnder the infideles.

And when he speaketh of the piler of fire & cloude. I answere / that god was no nother wise present there then in all fire and in all cloudes saue that he shewed his power there specially by the reason of the miracle / as he doeth in the eyes of the blynde whom he maketh se / and yet is no nother wise present in those eyes then in other / ner moare there to be prayde to then in other. And in like maner he is no moare to be prayed to where he doeth a miracle then where he doeth nonne. Nether though we can not but be in some place / ought we to seke god in any place / saue only in oure hertes and that in verite / in faith hope and loue or charite acordynge to the worde of his doctrine.

And oure sacramentes / signes / ceremonies / images / reliques and monumentes ought to be