all most all consciences be captiue ther to. And it foloweth in the texte / as the sorserers of Egipte resisted Moses / so resisted they the trueth. They must be therefore mightie iugulars. And to poynte the popish with the fingre he saith / men ar they with corrupte mindes and castawayes concerninge faith / that is they be so fleshly minded / so croked so stoborn and so monstrouse shapen / that they can receaue no facion to stonde in any buyldynge that is grounded vppon faith / but when thou hast turned them al wayes and done thy best to hew them and to make them frame / thou must be fayne to cast them out with the turkes and Iewes / to serue god with the imageseruice of their awne false werkes. Of these and like textes and of the similitudes that christ maketh in the Gospell of the kingdome of heuen it appereth / that though the holy gost be in the chosen and teacheth them all trueth in Christe / to put their trust in him / so that they can not erre therin / yet while the world stondeth / God shall neuer haue a church that shall eyther persecute or be vnpersecuted them selues any season / aftir the fassion of the pope. But there shalbe in the church a fleshly seed of Abraham and a spirituall / a Caim and an Abel / an Ismaell and an Isaac / an Esau and a Iacob / as I have sayde / a worker and a beleuer / a greate multitude of them that be called and a small flocke of them that be electe and chosen. And the fleshlye shall persecute the spirituall / as Caim did Abel and Ismaell Isaac & soforth / and the greate multitude the smal litle flocke and antichrist wilbe euer the best christen man.