So now the church of god is dowble / a
fleshly and a spirituall
: the one wilbe and is not: the other is and
maye not be so called / but must be called a lutheran / an
heretike and soch like. Vnderstonde therfore / that god
when he calleth a congregacion vn to his name / sendeth
forth his mesingers to cal generally. Which mesingers
bringe in a greate multitude amased & astonied with miracles and power of the reasons which the preachers make / and
ther with be compelled to confesse that there is but one
god of power and might a boue all and that Christ is god
and man and borne of a virgin and a thousand other thinges.
And then the greate multitude that is called and not chosen
/ when they haue gotten this faith comune as well to the
deuels as them and moare strongly persuaded vnto the deuels
then vn to them / then they goo vn to their awne imaginacions sayenge: we maye no lenger serue Idoles / but god that is but one. And the maner of seruice they fett out of their awne
braynes and not of the word of god / and serue god with
bodily seruice as they did in times past their Idoles /
their hertes seruynge their awne
lustes still. And one will serue him in white /
another in blacke / a
nother in greye and a nother in pied. And a
nother to doo god a pleasure with all / wilbe sure / that
his showe shal haue .ij. or . iij. good thicke soles vnder
and will cut him aboue / so that in somer while the wether
is whott / thou maist se his bare fote and in winter his
socke. They wilbe shorn and shauen and Saduces: that is to saye /
rightewes / and phareses / that is / seperated in facions
from all wother men. Ye and they will consecrat them selues
all to gether vn to god and will annoynte their handes
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