ate doute also and a perelouse case if it were left out. For ether it was done to slake the hete of the wine or put to after / as a ceremonie / to signifie that as the water is chaunged in to wine / so are we chaunged thorow faith as it were in to christe and are one with him / how be it all is to their awne shame / that ought shuld be done or vsed amonge vs christen / where of noman wist the meaninge. For if I vnderstonde not the meaninge / it helpeth me not .1. corin. xiiij. and as experience teacheth. But if oure sheperdes had bene as wel willynge to fede as to shere / we had neded no soch dispicience / ner they to haue burnt so many as they haue.

And as for that he allegeth out of the epistle of Iames for the iustifienge of workes. I haue answered in the Mammon agenst which he can not hisse / and will speake moare in the .iiij. boke.

And as for the Saboth / agreate mater / we be lordes ouer the saboth and maye yet chaunge it in to the monedaye or any other daye / as we se nede / or maye make euery tenth daye holy daye only if we se a cause why / we maye make .ij. euery weke / if it were expedient & one not ynough to teach the people. Nether was there any cause to chaunge it from the saterdaye then to put difference betwene vs and the Iewes and lest we shuld become seruauntes vn to the daye aftir their supersticion. Nether neded we any holydaye at all / if the people might be taught with out it.

And when he axeth by what scripture we know that a woman maye christen. I answere / if baptim be so necessary as they make it / then