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Although we have most urgent & weighty causes, yea & those innumerable to extol, magnify, commend & praise the exceeding goodness & bounteous liberality of our most merciful father, if we perpend, pen sitate, weigh, ponder & consider his inestimable benefits, which he freely & without our deserving daily giveth unto us miserable creatures, yet if we weigh all things in a just balance, we shall easily and without any difficult perceive, y• we are most bound to celebrate & praise his most blessed name for the restoring of his holy word at this ⟨image 3⟩time, brought to pass by his true anointed Henry our most redoubted King, as by another Josiah, whose graces most excellent mayest that LORD of powers mought prosper in all his divine affairs & godly enterprises. For before God restored to the world the Gospel & joyful tidings of his dearly beloved son our LORD & Saviour Jesus Christ, incredulity as chief ruler reigned in our hearts, Hypocrisy as a vain glorious Empress, bare dominion, Superstition, Idolatry, false sects, mens traditions, confidence reposed in humane inventions, Pilgrimages, Offerings, Bulls, Pardons, dispensations, Masses of Scala celi, merchandise for merits & works, buying & selling of the divine mysteries, with an whole sea of evils mo, had crept in, unto the great perturbation & disquietness of the holy ⟨image 3⟩catholic church, as I may pass over the blind ignorance & ignorant blindness, into the which by this means we were cast and tumbled. Howe can it otherwise be? If the light of Gods word be obscured extinct or quenched,¹ which only is the lantern to our feet, & a light to our pathways, what marvel is it, though the fierce & outrageous floods of Idolatry & all kind of superstition break in and invade the bounds of christianity, yea and overflow them.

ALthough we haue mooste vrgent & weyghty causes, yea & those īnumerable to extoll, magnify, commend & prayse the exceadynge goodnes & bounteous liberalite of our moost mercifull father, yf we perpend, pē sitate, weyghe, ponder & cōsider his inestimable benefites, which he frely & without our deseruynge dayely giueth vnto vs miserable creatures, yet if we weyghe all thinges in a iust balaunce, we shall easely and withoute ony difficulte perceaue, y we are moost bounde to celebrate & prayse his moost blyssed name for ye restorynge of his holy word at this