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and if we do so reclaim our whole hearts to the scriptures, that, as Hillary doth give counsel, we suspend our understanding upon the words of the Lord, and not imagine that to be written which our selves have taken hold of, before we read it with our own eyes, nor that we attribut• so highly to the imaginations of our own fancies, as that with tooth and nail we defend that which we have once entered upon: but that we search first by careful inquisition those things which we do hold. And therefore we be commanded to search the scriptures, unto the which it behoveth to assubiect all our determinations altogether, & not to wrest the scriptures to the fancies of our own imaginations. There may be many and sundry persons so grossly blockish and so bluntish of judgement, who will ⟨image 122⟩allow of nothing at all, but that which they have received of their forefathers, and which by old custom hath been frequented: as though the forefathers could not possibly err, or as though truth were wont to be the mother and not the daughter of time. Which order if we shall be enforced to observe, to wit, that we accept of nothing to be safe and sound in matters of religion, but that which hath been privileged by custom of elder years after this rule, surely neither Paul nor Peter, neither any one of the Apostles at all, should ever have been a Christian, neither shall any the Turks hereafter be converted into our faith, being so many years inured & nuzzled up in their own errors.

and if we do so reclayme our whole heartes to the scriptures, that, as Hillary doth giue counsell, wee suspende our vnderstanding vppon the wordes of the Lorde, and not imagine that to be written which our selues haue taken holde of, before we reade it with our owne eyes, nor that wee attribut• so highly to the imaginations of our owne fansies, as that with toothe and nayle wee defende that which wee haue once entred vpon: but that we search first by carefull inq•isition those thinges which we do holde. And therefore wee be commaunded to search the scriptures, vnto the which it behoueth to assubiect al our determinations altogether, & not to wrest the scriptures to the fansies of our owne imaginations. There may be many and sundrie persons so grossely blockishe and so bluntishe of iudgement, who wil ⟨image 122⟩