selfe in al thynges, too bee a faithful subiect.
Furthermore, it is clearer then the light (most vertuous
prince) that it woulde make muche for the weale of
this noble realme, yf all me with heart and mynde,
would nowe as well expulse the pernitious and deuelyshe
doctryne af that Romishe bishop, as his name is blotted
i bookes. There is none so ignoraunt, but he knoweth
that, thorough hym we were brought into a woderful
blindnes, thorough hym we did sauer of nothyng, but
of stynkyng Ydolatry, through hym we were deceiued
with || false Ypocrisie. Now let euery blind
stiffe hearted, and obstinate creature compare his
abhomination with the gospell, and if he be not shameles,
he will abashe to smell of his papistrie, and to walow
still in ignoraunce, vn lest he bee priuely confederate
and in heart consent with the detestable felowship
of al wicked papistes. Now would God all suche
men would reduce ageyn their heartes vnto ye gospell
of Christ, would god they would bee prouoked by some
meane to desire knowledge. O that god woulde
yeoue them a couragious mynde too reade the gospel,
there they shal sone fynde all the venoume of the
romishe sort most playnely detected. Forsoth
wee see dayly, that lacke of knowledge of the gospel
maketh some busserdes runne hedlong on all rockes,
daungers, & extreme perilles: yea, and beside
that, olde popysh doctryne whiche lyeth folded vp
& locked faste in their heartes, doeth so sore blynd
the that they haue neither fauour ne affectio too
printe in their myndes, the expressed coucels, admonitions,
and || preceptes of the holy scripture, but too slepe
stil in their owne conceites, dreames, & fonde phansies.
Wherfore let your dignitie note well this, that all
those whiche bee not wyllyng that gods woord should
bee knowen, and that blyndenes should be clean expulsed
from all men, whiche be baptised in ye blessed bludde
of Christ, bewray themselues playne papistes:
for in very deede that most deceatful wolfe and graund
maister papist with his totiens quotiens, and a pena
et culpa blesseth all suche as will bee blynde stil,
maintaine his pope, drinke of his cuppe of fornication,
trust in his pardounes, liue in popery, ypocrisie,
and danable ydolatrie, shut vp the kingdome of heauen,
& neuer regarde the gospel. Cotrarie too this,
christ bi his holy Prophete calleth al those blessed
that seke for his testimonies, al those his elect &
chose childre, which turne fro synne, ypocrisie, &
ydolatrie, all those goddes that heare his word, yea,
& breuely, al those which set it forward honorable
me. & in this puincte your grace shoulde euer beare
in mynde, || that noble and vertuous kyng Hezekiah,
whiche shewed hymselfe very honorable in settig forward
ye woord of God, and therby gotte hym glory and fame
immortall, so that nowe he is most highly praysed
amongtst all men. Ageyn his subiectes dyd obey
his commaundement feynedly with Ypocrisie, but in their
heartes they abhorred gods woord. O the miserie
that dyd afterwarde sodeinly ensue vpon them, O the