A right notable sermon, madeA ryght notable sermon, made

Behold / this is the form and manner to remit and absolve sins. That thin ge can be done by no other reason / nor by any other means / no other counsel / no other help is any where in any thing. For that doctrine of the Pope / is both erroneous and blasphemous by the which men do profess / that by their works and proper merits they can obtain remission of their sins / and therefore doth it bind men to satisfactions and commandeth them / to take upon them a solitary life / or to make a pilgrimage unto. S. James / or to build temples / or to edify great Cathedral churches and monasteries to singe Masses and to buy Pardons and such like. These be not the ways or means / whereby the remission of sin may happen unto thee. These thy pilgrimages and these thy works and goods thou mayest convert into an other and better use. In this business (as much as appertaineth unto the means of health) they shall profit the nothing at all. For here it cometh to pass as it is said / when muses taketh upon him his horns and doth strike the / that is to wit / when by the law / he doth declare unto the thy sins and the greatness and multitude of them and so doth cast the into quaking ⟨image 15⟩fear and desperation. Than art thou no longer in that great number of men that are full of security / and have forgotten to sorrow / and can not repent / and are obdurate / but in that little number of these that do acknowledge their misery and sins / and do feel them / and therefore they weep / wail and tremble at the rushing of a leaf / and at the shadow of a read that is moved. Unto those a help is prepared. Unto those Christ saith I / I say / have instituted and established that kingdom of grace / which shall consume / abolish swallow up and destroy since and death / and shall bring unto the justice / and life.

Beholde / this is the forme ande maner to remitte ād absoile sinnes. That thī ge can be done by no other reason / nor by any other meanes / no other coūsell / no other helpe is any where in any thing. For that doctrine of the Pope / is both erronious ād blasphemous by the which mē do professe / that by their works ād propre merites they can obteine remissiō of their sī nes / ād therfore doth it bind mē to satisfactions and cōmaundeth thē / to take vppō thē a solitary life / or to make a pilgrimage vnto. S. Iames / or to builde tēples / or to edifie great Cathedrall churches and monasteries to singe Masses ād to buy Pardons and soche like. These be not the wayes or meanes / wherby the remyssyon of synne maye happen vnto the. These thy pilgrimages ād these thy workes ād goodes thou maiste cōuerte īto ā other ād better vse. In this busines (as moche as apparteineth vnto the meanes of health) they shall proffit the nothīg at all. For here it commeth to passe as it is said / when muses taketh vppō hym his hornes ande doth strike the / that is to witte / when by the lawe / he doth declare vnto the thy sinnes ād the greatnes and multitude of thē ande so doth cast the into quaking feares