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world with his hie lernynge? And last of all the salt
of oure prelates which ys theyr tradycions and
ceremonyes wyth out sygnificacion ys vnsauerye longe a goo /
and therfore no moare worth but to be cast out at the dores
and to be troden vnderfote.
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And that he sayth in the ende that a man maye haue a good
faith with euell liuinge / I haue proued it a lie in a
nother place. Morouer fayth /
hope and loue be .iij. sisters that neuer can
departe in this worlde / though in the worlde to come loue
shal swalowe vp the other two.
Nether can the one be stronger or weker then
that other. But as moch
as I beleue so moch I loue and so moch I hope:
ye and so moch I worke.
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xix.
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In the .xix. he proueth that prayinge to saintes is good
& miracles that confirme it are of god or els the
church saith he doeth erre. It
foloweth in dede or that the popis church
erreth. And when he saith it is sinne to beleue to moch I
saie we had the moare nede to take hede what we beleue and
to serch gods worde the moare dylygently that we beleue
nether to moch ner to litle.
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And when he saith god is honoured by prayenge to saintes
because it is done for hys sake: I answere / if it sprange
not out of a false faith but of the loue we haue to god /
then shuld we loue god moare. And morouer in as moch as all
oure loue to god spryngeth out of faith / we shulde beleue
and trust god. And then if oure fayth in god were greater
then oure feruent deuocyon to sayntes / we shulde praye to
no sayntes at all / seynge we haue promyses of all thynges
in oure sauyoure Iesu and in the sayntes none at all.
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