faithfull / they do
tempt godd / and do after a sort prouoke hym / as thoughe they
wolde becomme stronger than he.

Many more reasons might I bringe to proue this proposicion true.
That a priuate man / being in a place wher he is not compelled
to communicate with the supersticions of the vnfaithfull / and is
vnlearned vnable / and to weake to confesse the truithe / must
not ioyne in familiaritie / nor be familiarly dwelling and
conuersant together with the vnfaithfull. But bicause I do
suppose that it is sufficiently proued by the reasons which I
haue alledged / I will now prepare myself to an other
proposicion.

The thred proposicion shalbe / of Priuate men and subiectes /
which ar lerned and stronge / and of them also which ar weake
and vnlearned / of that dwelling which is not fre / wher as men
ar compelled by lawes / and Tyrannye to communicate and to be
partakers with the wicked in their supersticions and Idolatries:
And of theise I make this proposicion / and sentence.

[[The thred proposicion.]]

Priuate men and subiectes be they learned or vnlearned / stronge
or weake / which ar dwelling and abyding in that place wher men
ar compelled to communicate / and be partakers withe
Idolatrors / and to be present at vnlawfull supersticions and
Idolatries / defiling themselues with vncleane Religion / maye not
dwell together nor be familiarly conuersaunt / they may not
ioyne in societie with suche Idolatrors: I saye / that this
cohabitacion / and familiar dwelling together is vnlawfull /
vngodlye / and not to be kept in ony wise: But in this case a
faithfull man must either flye / or dye for the truithe / that
he be not compelled to defile himself with Idolatrie. Ther is
truly but one truithe / and that same must be holden with a pure
conscience / neither must it be forsaken for the pleasure of ony
man.

[[1. Cor. 10.]]

S. Paul saith to the Corinthians: flye ye Idolatrie. Then do men
flye Idolatrie / when either they do depart from the place wher
Idolatrie is committed / or when abiding still in the same
place / they do gyue their lyues and suffer deathe bicause they
will not committ Idolatrie nor allowe it with ther presence. Paul
therfor teachith by this sayinge / that in no wise the faithfull
shuld come at the Idolatries of the vnfaithfull / but flye from
them: which sentence is so playn to the vnderstondinge of the
most symple / that it neadith no exposicion at all. The lawe and
the prophetes / th