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M. Item no man shall praye to sayntes. T. when
ye speake with
saintes that be departed / it is not euell to
put them in remembraunce
to praye for you. M. whi doo they not heare vs?
T. if they loue you
so feruently and be so greate with god / whi
certifie they you not /
that they so doo? M. so they doo in that we
fele oure peticions
graunted. T. God saued the old Idolatres with
worldly saluacion and gaue them their peticions / which
they yet axed of their Idoles / as ye se thorow out al the
old testament. God heareth the crowes / foules / beestes
and wormes of the erth / as the texte saith / men and beestes doeth god saue / which bestes yet praye not to god. The Iewes and turkes doeth god saue in this worlde and geueth them their
worldly peticions. Which yet worshepe not god / as his
godly nature is to be worsheped but aftir their awne
imaginacion: not in the spirite with faith hope and loue /
but with bodyly seruice as the pope doeth. As the popish
serue S. Appoline for the toth ache and ar healed: euen so
the Iewes and turkes be healed and pray not to hir / but serue god aftir a nother maner for the same disease. So that God
doeth saue in this worlde all that kepe the worldely lawes
worldly / that is to
wite / outwarde in the body for bodyly rewarde and not in
the herte of loue that springeth out of the mercy that God
hath geuen vs in christe which same / though they be turkes
/ if they breake the worldly lawes / he rebuketh them / as
the ni
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