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Notwithstanding one thing doth sore vex him that I should recite the pystell of S. Paul whereby he sayeth I would have men believe that I had the spirit of god and think that though I be young that I see visions and espy the trueth / and that my elders have dreamed dreams and wandered in fantasies.

Notwithstondinge one thinge doth sore vexe him that I shulde recyte the pystell of S. Paule wherbye he sayeth I wolde haue mē beleue that I had the sprete of god and thynke that though I be yonge that I se visyons and espye the truethe / and that my elders haue dremed dremes and wandered in phantasyes.

This he recounteth to be a great boast &¹ that this one place should win him the field where unto I answer that in dead my words do not prove that thing / which you seem •o surely to gather of them / but my words do argue on this manner / that no man ought to condemn a thing before he read it […] then to give sentence / and because you seem ignorant in the matter I shall declare it unto you / and how it standeth / it is a ⟨image 8⟩colour of rhetoric / and is called avantopodosis that is to say an answer to an objection that a man might have here made on this manner: thou grantest thy self young and so small learning dost thou then think that we shall once read or regard thy book / specially sith it is written against ancient men both of great wit and dignity? to this two points I answer preventing their objection that they should not despise it because of my youth / for as the spirit of god is bound to no place / even so is he not addict to any age or person but inspireth where he will and when he will & bring in for an ensample that he inspired young Timothy proving there by that the youth of it self is not to be despised / but according to the learning which it bringeth and that therefore they may not despise my youth but first read what doctrine I bring and thereafter do judge it: no more in this I proved not that I am inspired and have the spirit of god as Timothy had / but only prove that God may inspire youth as he did Timothy / and that therefore ye ought first to read before you condemn / for you know not who is inspired & who not until you have read their works or seen their facts. Thus you may see that my words define not that all youth is inspired although some may be / but I exhort that no man despise