l places the rites / and ceremonies shold be of one
forme / I do not thinke it a thing worthie the labor. For what
matter maketh it if some men do receyue the sacrament stonding /
other sittinge / other kneling. And if in some places whilest
the bretheren do communicat / a place of the scripture be redd /
or some psalmes be song of the people / or other songes of
thankes geuing. Nether is it any great matter / when a corps is
caried to the buriall / whether that men do followe the hearce
holding their peace / or singing of psalmes / or suche other
thinges as maye edifie them that do stande by. These thinges are
to be lefte so free that in the churches suche maie be vsed / as
shall seme most meete for the edyfyinge of the people. Yea I
suppose that this varietye and chaunge in rytes / and
ceremonies / dothe not a lytell profyte and helpe to bring in a
true opinion of ceremonies / and to haue it kepte also: that is /
that men shuld beleue that all those ceremonies which the holie
scripure doth not apoint / are not necessarie vnto saluacion /
but maye be chaunged accordinge to the estate of tyme / and as
shall serue for edifying / as they shall think Godd which haue in
their hand the orderinge the churche. That moste worthie commen
wealthe of the venetians / which haue vnder their dominions /
many Cities and places in Grece / they do in eche of them permit
and suffer the rytes / and ceremonies / bothe of the Greke
churche / and of the Latin churche / for those wise men do
thincke / that the dyuersytie in outward ceremonies which are
not taught in Godds worde is not hurtefull. I do not alledg this
to allowe all such ceremonies as they do permitt in thos
places / but only to shew that they thincke it not a matter of
necessite to haue all one forme of ceremonies: The verie same
thinge before them did Augustine iudge as in his epistles to
Ianuarius / and Cassulanus it dothe apeare.

The thirde thinge is / that the princes and rulers which do
suffer these vnfaithfull men to dwell in their dominions sholde
prouide that they mighte be taughte the truithe: and in this
behalfe they muste not neglect them: for as the princes do
declare their gentilnes in suffering them to dwell in their
dominions so this their pacience muste be directed to the glorie
of God: And howe can that be soughte in theis vnbeleauers / if
they be suffered to abyde in their noughtie opinion without
teachinge: Surely by thys meanes in processe of tyme they