sayest: Let God care for that / he will well prouide for that /
let vs not doubt. Wel maye theise men be answered / as the lorde
answered Peter / when he called hym / sayinge:

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folowe me: Peter made a staye at it and asked hym what Iohn
shuld do. If I will (saith Christ) haue hym to tarye / what is
that to the? do thow folowe me. So if thow aske in this case /
what shall then be done with the churche? I aunswer / what is
that to the? Do thow the thinge wher vnto thow art called.
Besids this often tymes the doctrine of the gospell is more sett
furth / and better receyued / when it is mayntayned by deathe /
and fleinge / then when by words only it is propownded and
taught: for then men are taught by deedes / as before they wer
by wordes: Haste thow confessed the gospell in wordes? This then
remayneth for the to do: die / or flye for the gospell so shalt
thou confesse the same indede. And Let vs not feare the desolation
of the churche / for wher one of our brethern dyeth / or flyeth
for the doctrine / in his rowm shall rise vp a great sorte. But
if we stand and continue in dissemblinge / then is the light of
the truithe put owt / nether is there any confession made indede.

They bringe in also the examples of Zacharie / Iohn the
Baptist / the virgin Marie / and Ioseph / which in the corupted
and infected tymes when they lyued dyd comme vnto the seruice of
God in the Temple of the Iues / The same thing maye be permitted
to them (they thincke) and that yt is as lawfull for them to
partake and vse the ceremonies in the popish churche be they
neuer so corrupt. True it is that ther were many wicked
doctrines and euill opinions at that tyme emongest the scribes
and pharisees. But yet the estate of them was far otherwise / then
it is in our tyme: They hade corrupted the doctrine of the law
and of iustification. They were couetous / That thing which they
dyd / Was done with out fayth / and therfor abhominable before
God / yet the rite and maner of sacrificing apointed by Goddes
lawe was not chaunged / for the same beastes were offered which
the lawe dyd commaunde / the same daies were obserued / and
ceremonies / and therfore it was lawfull to vse them inasmoche as
they hade the worde of Godd for them. And eiche man that so vsed
them receyued according to the measure of his faithe. For the
corrupte doctrines / sentences and manieres of the priestes /
Bishoppes and scribes / dyd not hurte at all the prophett