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Take away from us all those curates,¹ which are blind, with out knowledge, dumb dogs not able to bark, which have pleasure to behold vain things, & love to lie snorting & dreaming. Most ⟨p. xxii⟩unshamefaced dogs are they, they have never enough, although they heap benefice upon benefice, prebend upon prebend, deanery upon deanery never so much.² For all are wholly bent unto covetousness, even from the highest unto the lowest, and the things that they get, spend they in banqueting, and in vain pleasures. Take away from us those false prophets,³ which come unto us in sheep's clothes, but inwardly are ravening wolves. Take a way those false anointed, & false preachers, which by their subtle doctrine go about to bring us into error,⁴ and teach us not to seek the with true faith in heaven, where thou sittest on the right hand of God thy father, but in the cloister, and in the pyx.⁵ Take away from us those grievous wolves, which are entered in among ⟨image 38⟩us, & spare not the flock but speak perverse things, that they may lead away the faithful after them.⁶ Take away from us all those men pleasers, which by their fair speech, and flattering words, deceive the hearts of the simple,⁷ by this means serving their belly and not thee, O Lord Jesus Christ.⁸ Take away from us those justiciaries, which teach that we are justified by the works of the law, and not by faith alone in our Lord God. Ah Lord, if our justification cometh of works, then diddest thou dye in vain. But whosoever seeketh to be justified by works, is utterly fallen from the grace and favour of god. For we know that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of the our lord Jesus Christ: