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not the vse to saye / the holy
gost writeth / but inspireth the writer. I
maruayle that he had not brought / as many of his brethren
doo / Matthew in the last / where
Christ commaunded the appostles to goo and
teach all nacions / and
saide not write. I answere / that this precepte
/ loue thy neyboure as thy selfe and god aboue all thynge
went with the appostles and
compelled them to seke gods honoure in vs / and
to seke al meanes to continue the faith vn to the worldes
ende. Now the appostles knewe before that heresies shuld
come / and therfore wrote / that it
might be a remedie agenst heresies / as it well
appereth Ihon .xx.
where he saith / these are written / that ye
beleue and thorow beleffe
haue life. And in the seconde of his first
pistle he saith / these I write because of them that
deceaue you. And Paul and Peter therto warne vs in many
places. Wherfore it is manifest / that the same loue compelled them to leue nothynge vnwritten that shuld be necessarily
requyred / and that if it were left out / shuld hurte the
soule.
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