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Be he Augustine, Tertullian, or other Cherubim or Cherubim. unto the rules and Canons of the scripture must man trust and reform his errors thereby. or else he shall not reform him self but rather deform his conscience. The church of the Romans, Corin thions and other. the seven churches that ⟨image 22⟩Joan. writeth of in the Apocalypses were in all things reformed unto the rule and form prescribed by the everlasting God the image of these churches I always print in my mind. And where so ever I come I look how near they resemble the afore rehearsed and whether there preachers preach simple without dispensation of any part of God's most necessary word. And whether all the occasions of Idolatry be taken away as ymagy ce whom Gregory calleth the books of the lay men though this title be against the second commandment and never approved bythold testament nor the new •y word or example where as the occasion is not removed the word of god must needs stand in hazard for god will not, Say the wisdom of man what it list have his church pestered with any kind of Idolatry: and to make god and the devil agree ⟨image 23⟩in one church it is impossible. Saint John hath wonderful words in the Apocalypse cap. 3. Unto the church of laodicensium scio opera tua, quia neque frigidus neque feruidus: Utinam frigidus esses aut feruidus itaque quoniam tepidus es & nec frigidus nec feruidus incipiam te evome re de ore meo. These words are very necessary to be bonr in mind. For he that is nether hot nor cold, But indifferent to use the college of God's word and Christs church, with the word and gloss of man that teacheth the use of images in the church, before he can prove by the authority of God's word that they may be suffered in the church doth not well, they have bin the occasion of great hurt and Idolatry the church of the old testament nor the new never taught the people with images. Therefore it shall be the office of every man that loveth god and his ⟨image 23⟩word to follow the scripture only. And to be wail the ignorance of such as hath before our time or now in our time by words or writing defend the same. And with all humility and humbleness submit himself to the judgment and Censure of the judge of all Jugdes the word of god that he may wisely and godly discern what is to be believed and accepted of any doctors writings, and what is not to be accepted.