An other book against Rastel named the subsidy or bulwark to his first book,…An other boke against Rastel named the subsedye or bulwark to his fyrst boke,…

Then bringeth he against me that I¹ say we have been long secluded from the scripture & also that our fore fathers have not had the light of God's word opened unto them.

Then bryngeth he agaynste me that I¹ saye we haue bene longe secluded frome the scripture & also that oure fore fathers haue not had the lyghte of godes worde opened vnto them.

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I marvel what Rastell meaneth by¹ bringing this for his purpose / for I think it no boasting of my self / but if ye think that it be untrue / I think he is very blind. ⟨image 10⟩For what scripture hath the poor commons been admitted unto even till this day? It hath ben and locked up in a strange tongue and from them that have attained the knowledge of that tongue hath it ben locked with a thousand false glosses of antichrists making and innumerable laws. And where I say our fore fathers have not had the light of God's word opened unto them / I mean that they have not the scripture in their own mother tongue / that they might have conferred these juggling mists with the light of God's word as the process of my words can testify which he hath holy left out / but I beseech the christen reader once to read the place for my discharge and his confusion / ye shall find it in the second lief of my book.

I meruayll what Rastell meanethe by¹ bryngynge this for his purpose / for I thīke it no bostinge of my selfe / but yf ye thynke that it be vntrue / I thinke he is very blinde.