Now sir god hath made his last and euerlastinge testament / so that all is open / and no moare behynde then the apperinge of Christe agayne. And because he will not stere vpp euery daye a new prophete with a new miracle to confirme new doctrine or to call agayne the old that was forgotten / therfore were all thynges necessarye to saluacion comprehended in scripture euer to endure. By which scripture the counseles generall and not by open miracles / haue concluded soch thinges as were in them determined / as stories make mencion. And by the same scripture we know which counseles were true and whych false. And by the same scripture shall we / if any new question arise / determine it also. Abraham answered the rich man / they haue Moses and the prophetes / let them heare them / and saide not / they haue the scribes and the phareses whom they shuld heare preachynge out of the sete of their awne doctrine with out scripture.

And when he allegeth / he that heareth you heareth me / and if any man heare not the church take him for an hethen / concludynge that we must beleue whosoeuer is shauen in all that he affirmeth with out scripture or miracle / I wold fayne wete in what figure that silogismus is made. Christes disciples taught Christes doctrine confirmynge it with miracles / that it might be knowen for gods and not theirs. And euen so must the church that I will beleue shew a miracle or bringe autenticke scripture that is come from the appostles which confirmed it with miracles.

In the .xxix. he allegeth that christ saide not the holy gost shall write / but shall teach. It is