do entreate / is most simplye / and playnly forbidden. The
figures and ceremonies of Moses lawe ar taken awaye / but yet
the thinge figured / which is as I might saye / the strenghth /
the pythe / and foundacion of them / doth remayn.

[[Numer. 15.]]

Which thinge being true / I maye then aske this question. The
lorde commaunded that the Iues shuld make gardes in the
quartiers of their garments / and to put vppon the garde /
a ribande of yelow silcke / &c. My question now is. Whi the
lorde did commaunde / that the Iues shuld differ from the
gentils / not in circumcision only / but euen in their garments
also? Euen for this cause verily / that they shuld be taught
euen by their gardes also / that they wer gods peculiar people /
and that they shulde separate themselues from the gentils / that
they shuld not be conuersaunt with them / neither shuld they
ioyne themselues in familiaritie withe them / farther then the
necessitie of either of the lyues did require. The Iuishe gardes
we do reiect / but this which is ment by the gardes we both do
and must retayne. In many places the lorde commaunded the Iues
also that they shuld not return into Egypte / and that they
shuld not aske healpe of the Egiptians / nor of the Assirians:
Which he did partly to this end / that through such familiaritie
as then must haue beene betwene them and their healpers / the
Israelites shuld not be infected withe their vices. The booke of
the Iudges / doth playnly inough teache vs this will and
pleasure of godd.

[[Iudic. 2.]]

For the Israelites did synne greuusly in this / that they did
put to tribute thos Idolatrus nacions / ouer whom the lorde hadd
gyuen them uictorie / and did couenant with them / that they
shuld dwell amonge them in peace / which thinge godd hadd diuers
tymes expressly forbidden them to do / commaunding that they
shuld vtterly destroye the inhabitantes of that lande: This he
did partli bicause / that through this they shuld not be brought
by the Cananites / into the daunger of Idolatrie. Now the cause
being such with these weake / and vnlearned men / of whom I now
do speake / they must likewise take goode heade to obserue that
rule / which the lorde appointed vnto the Israelites. It
appearith playnly / that this commandement of god was kept longe
tyme amonge the Iues: for they did not vse ony familiaritie /
nor keape companie withe the Samaritans which did not truly
worshipe the lyuynge godd / no not in christes tym