of synne agaynst the omnypotet power of gode, lest
euyn frome owre fyrst father Adam, is so enclyned
to vyces, amongest the whiche it hath not gyuen the
least parte to thys desperate synne of ydolatrye,
agaynst the immaculate, and fearefull commandement
of god. Thou shalt haue no straunge Gods in my
syght, that it is sore to be dreadde the same iudgement
to be gyuyn || vpon vs that was gyuen vpon the cytye
of Ninyue to be absorped of the yerthe in to the yre
and vengeannce of gode, whiche hathe ben the cause
that so many wryters bothe of late dayes, and many
yeres passede, haue euyn to deathe, resisted thes
dampnable bolsterers of ydolatrye, gyuen theyr selues
to the crosse in example of reformacyon to theyr bretherne,
bothe in wrytinge and cownsell, exhortynge the flocke
of Christe frome soche prophane doctryne, amongest
whome the noble and famouse clerke Desiderius Erasmus
hath setforthe to the quycke ymage, before mennys
eyes, the supersticyouse worshype and false honor
gyuyn to bones, heddes, iawes, armes, stockes, stones,
shyrtes, smokes, cotes, cappes, hattes, shoes, mytres,
slyppers, sadles, rynges, bedes, gyrdles, bolles,
|| [+] iiij.|| belles, bokes, gloues, ropes, taperes,
candelles, bootes, sporres, (my breath was almost
past me) with many other soche dampnable allusyones
of the deuylle to use theme as goddes contrary to
the immaculate scripture of gode, morouer he notethe
as it were of arrogancye the pryuate iudgment of certayne
that of theyr owne brayne wolde cast out ymages of
the temple, with out a comen consent and authoryte,
some there be that alway seke halowes, and go vpon
pylgramages vnder a pretense of holynes, whervpon
thes brotherhoddes and systerhoodes be now inuented,
morouer they that haue ben at Hierusalem be called
knightes of the sepulcre, and call one an other bretherne,
and vpon palme-sondaye they play the foles sadely,
drawynge after them an asse in a || rope, when they
be not moche distante frome the woden asse that they
drawe. The same do they conterfayte that haue
ben at saynt Iames in Compostella. But they be
more pernycyouse, that set forthe vncertayn relyques,
for certayne, and attrybute more to them than they
oughte to haue, and prostytute or sett theym forthe
for fylthye lukre. But now whan they perceyue,
that this theyr dapnable Corbane [A tresure
boxe of ye Iewes.] dothe decay, and that theyr most
to be lamented blyndnes and longe accustomed errours
shuld be redressed, they, all fayre bothe of god and
man set asyde, rebelle and make insurrectyones contrary
to the ordynaunce of gode, agaynst theyr kynge and
liege lorde, prouokynge and allurynge the symple comynaitye
to theyre dampnable ypocrysye and conspyracy, myndyng
|| [+] v.|| and goynge about to preuente our most
soueraigne lordes iudgment, not yet gyue vpon theyr
Sodomiticall actes, and most horryble ypocrysy.
But the worde of the lorde whiche they so tyrannously
go aboute to suppresse with all the fauerours therof
shall ouercome & destroy all soch most to be abhorred