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and after the death of the Apostles every doctors time was subject unto such ceremony and mans ⟨image 21⟩decrees, that was nether profitable nor necessary. therefore diligently exhorted Paul the church of Christ principally to consider and regard the foundation of all verity Meaning that Doctors of the church had there imperfection and faults. Fundamentum (inquit) non potest poni aliud praeter id quod positum est, quod est Jesus Christus. In the se few words is stablish all our faith and all false religion reprehended upon this foundation some men build gold to say godly and necessary doctrine as Policarpus that confuted the he resy of marcion de essencia Dei. of the causis of sin that the devil and man is the cause of sin and not god nor fatal destiny, nor the influence or respects of the planets. He maintained the true religion of god and governed the church, As the scripture taught which he learned of Johan evangelist and defended this truth with ⟨image 21⟩wonderful constance and martyrdom Basilius and many other retained the articles of the faith but they instituted the lief and rule off monks and preferred that kind of lief before the lief of such as govern in the commune wealth the people of god. and persuaded men that such kind of lief was a very divine and acceptable honouring of god. After him followed such as augmented this ill and said it was not only acceptable unto God but also: that men might deserve therewith remission of sin. thus a little and a little the devil augmented superstition and diminished the truth of God's glory so that we see no where the church of Christ as it was in the Apostles time though many and godly verities hath bin brought unto light in our time by men of diverse graces yet is not the truth of necessary verities plainly shewed by them ⟨image 22⟩lest man should to much glory in himself he permitted them to err in certain points. As Luther of ablyssyd memory. which wrote and preached the gospel of justification no man better yet in the cause of the sacrament he erreth concerning the corporal presence of Christs natural body that there is no man can err more. I shall have occasion to writ the truth concerning this matter hereafter it is no reproach of the did man. but mine opinion unto all the world that the scripture solely and the Apostles church is to be followed and no man's authority.