And when he sayth peter and paul commaunded vs / to obey oure superioures. That ys trouth / they commaunded vs to obey the temperall swerde whych the pope wyll not. And they commaunded to obey the bysshopes in the doctrine of christe and not in their awne. And we teach not to breake all thynges rashly / as M. More vntrulie reporteth on vs (which is to be sene in oure bokes / if men wil loke vppon them). Of tradicions therfore vnderstond generally. He that maye be fre is a fole to be bonde. But yf thorow wilinesse / thou be brought in to bondage: then yf the tradicion hurte thy soule and the fayth / they are to be broken immediatly / though wyth the losse of thy lyfe. If they greue the body only / then are they to be born tyll god take them off / for breakynge the peace and vnite.

Then how sore maketh he christes burthen. If yt be so sore / why is Master More so cruell to helpe the bysshopes to lade vs with moare? But surelye he speaketh verye vndiscretelye. For christ did not lade vs with one sillable moare then we were euer bounde to / nether did he saue interpret the law trulye. And besides that / he geueth vn to al his / loue vnto the law: which loue maketh all thynges easye to be born that were before impossible.

And when he saith / ye be the salt of the erth was spoken for the bysshops and prestes only yt ys vntrue / but yt was spoken generally vn to all that beleue and know the trueth / that they shulde be salt vnto the ignoraunt / and the perfecter vn to the weker / ech to other euery man in hys measure. And Morouer yf yt be spoken vn to the prelates only / how fortuneth yt that Master More ys so busye to salte the