eate.

[[Daniel. 3.]]

Daniel his thre felows did gyue themselues / to be thrown in to
the burnynge fornace / rather then they wold worshipp the kinges
golden Image. But theise thinges must now be applied vnto theise
most vnhappie Daies / in whiche / wher poperie rulith / the
godly which do dwel togither with the vngodlie / the professours
of christes gospell / I meane / With the papistes / ar compelled
to be at ther Masses / and most vile and filthie Idolatries and
supersticions: vnto them doth this proposicion reatche / and of
them therfor I do playnly affirme / and saye this /

[[It is not lawfull to be present at the popyshe Masse and
supersticions]]

That it is not lawfull for them to be present at the popishe
Masses / at popishe superstitions and jdolatries. It is to well
knowne / that many fondlye do flatter / and indeede deceyue them
selues / imagining that it is lawfull for them to be present at
this popish pelf. Againste whom with all ther clokes I vse this
sayinge of Paule / flye ye Idolatrie. But here they resiste and
saye / that this sayinge and suche other as before I haue
alledged / are to be vnderstanded of the sacryfices done vnto
Idoles / and false goddes / and not of such supersticions as are
nowe growen and vsed in papistrie / As of masses / and such
like / for in the sacrifices of the gentils what so euer is
done / yt is done vnto Idolles / But here in the masse that
whiche ys done is done as a worshippe vnto god / for the name of
godd is caled on: It hathe the begynynge of Christes ordinaunce
and institution, although that some nowghtie men abuse it:
wherfore / seinge theis do thus differ from the other / theis
can not by these sentences / and like reason be forbidden to
them / as Idolatrie was to the Corinthians: This they saye. But
theis men shuld considre and wel vnderstande / that theris no
owtwarde worcke wiche is to be estemed as a worshippe and
seruice of godd / but only that which is apoynted and ordeyned
by godds worde so to be / which ordinaunce in the worde if it
wante / it is vtterlie nothinge ells but mans inuention what so
euer it be: for worshippings of god and goddes seruice are they
not / but only when they haue godds worde to beare and warraunte
them. God can not be truly worshipped with out faithe, for if
faithe be not in the worshippe that is done vnto god / that
worshippe the lorde dothe abhorre / as the Prophet Esaie dothe
witnes. Incense is an abhominable thin