The
publique profession of poperie / the badge of the most vile and
filthie Idolatrie which is vsed in our age. In this therfor / in
which papistes put so mutch confidence / that they make therof
the very marcke wherby the godly are known from their men / no
Christian must dissemble. For if he do / then doth he publiquely
professe hymself to be a papist / which is euen to denie
Christes gospell: And this to do / is so greate a synne / as no
man can extenuate by ony blind cloke or reason. But thow wilt
saye: Ther be greate daungers / of which I am in present
ieoperdie / and I shall also sett mi self forthe to other most
heauy daungiers / except I be partaker and do communicate with
papists in the Masse / and such popishe Idolatrie. I grant that
ther are daungers / such is theyr Tyrannie. But remember thou /
That Godd hath forseene all theise daungers before / and also
hath shewed that they shuld comme / of which though he wer not
ignorante / yet did not his wisdom chaunge his lawe to haue them
auoyded: He commaunded / and doth / that Idolatrie shall not be
committed but that men shuld flye from it / which commaundement he
wyll haue kept what soeuer perill dothe comme theron. Wherfor let
vs cast our care vppon hym which hath gyuen vs this
commaundement / for he which doth know righte well / that theise
euels are ioyned with the obseruinge of his commaundementes / he
will care for them which for rightuisnes shalbe persequuted.
Truly the violence / and nature of persequution and daungiers is
not such / that it can chaunge Godds lawe: neither that he will
haue his lawes chaunged for them. Let persequutions be howsoeuer
they be / yet Godds lawe remaynith vnmoueable. Let vs not seeke
then to deuide and part ourselues / and our seruice / betwen
Godd and the deuell / as thoughe we wold gyue our mynde and
affection vnto Godd: and in poperie and supersticious Idolatries
to gyue our bodyes doinges / and outward actions vnto the deuell.

[[1. Cor. 6.]]

Our mynde is Godds seate / our bodie is his Temple.

[[Mat. 22.]]

Gyue therfore to Godd / that which belongith vnto hym. Thincke
what thow lust of doing and dissemblinge for thy commoditie:
Yeat this Rule / and certayn Canon of the holy ghost must now
either rule the /

[[Roma. 3.]]

or herafter in Godds iudgement confownde the. Euell thinges are
not to be done that Goode shuld come theron.

Now seing that we haue sufficiently spoken of priuate men and
subiectes