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.

And in the last Chaptre to make all fast / he bringeth in the kinges grace how he confuted Marten Luther with this conclusion / the church can not erre: where vn to I will make none answere for feare to displease his grace / neverthelesse because Marten coulde not soyle it / if his grace loke well vppon the matter / he shall finde that god hath assoyled it for him in a case of his owne.

And vppon that master More concludeth his first boke / that whatsoeuer the church / that is to wete / the pope and his brode saye / it is gods worde / though it be not written ner confirmed with miracle ner yet good liuinge / ye and