oued theym as vayn men
and lyars. If then men wyll gyue this vnto the verses of the
Sibylles that they be vncorrupte / moche more is it to be giuen
to the bokes of the Hebrues. Thus hath it pleased the lorde to
defende and arme his churche / yea euen with the testimonies of
his aduersaires. Wherfor let the Iues be suffred amonge the
Christians / both for the promis which they haue of the saluacion
to comme to their stocke / and also for the commodities which
they do carie with them / such as I haue rehearsed. And for this
cause / they be not only by lawes suffered / but also they haue
their Synagoges graunted vnto them: As in the Nouellis
Constitutionibus of Iustinian / and in the Decrees / it doth
appere: But this is permitted vnder such condicion that they
shuld not haue moo Synagoges then they hadd before / nor
greater: Yet maye they repaire them that fall into decaye: This
was graunted to them / bicause that in their congregacions / ther
is no impiete / nor wickednes committed: They do but reade only
the bookes of the holy scripture / and do publiquely praye. In
which thinge yet the Magistrates and Bushopps / do euell / which
do not diligently serche / take heede / and prouide / that they
do nothinge els in their congregations indeede / then that I
haue spoken of: for they shuld by al meanes take heede / that in
their publique and common prayers / exhortations and readinges
they do not speake euell of Christe our lorde and Godd. Which
thynge seing they do not / both the Magistrates and the Bushopps
are in greate fault. Vnto Turcks this ought not to be graunted /
that they shuld gather them selues together in congregations to
do their Godd seruice / bicause that in the same they reade
neither the old Testament / nor the newe / but only their own
blasphemus and filthie Alcorane. Morouer the Iues shuld be
forbidden the practise of their exchaunges / and their vsuries.
For not without mutch dishonesti and shame / do they afflicte
many poore Christians therwith. But Christian Princes and Rulars
do take tributes / and gret taxes for these gaynes of vsurie and
shamefull couetusnes of the Iues / so farr ar they from
forbidding them these wicked practises. Agayne Christian princes
do not prouide to haue the Iues which do dwell vnder their
dominions taught in Goddes truithe: which indeede is an euill
negligence in them: for truly they ought to compell the Iues to
comme vnto the godly sermons of the Christians / and that oft