A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…

EVSE. Yet I have herd, that some men now of late have risen up, which deny this thing, and affirm plainly, that such as fall into sin again after they be baptised & have put on Christ, can by no means be forgiven neither doth this Sacrament of penance avail any thing to the remission of their since.

EVSE. Yet I haue herd, that some men nowe of late haue ry sen vp, which denye this thynge, and affyrme playnely, that such as faull into synne agayne after they be bap tised & haue put on Christ, can by no meanes be forgyuen neyther dothe this Sacrament of penasice auayle ony thynge to the remission of theyr synnes.

THEO. O detestable heresy.

THEO. O detestable heresye.

PHIL. Yea O thrice detestable heresy. This is no new heresy. For it be gan about the year of our LORD, CC. xlix. & was first brought up of two famous Heretics, called Novatus & Catharus. For at y• time did the holy martyr S. Cyprian ¹write against the Novatians, as we may see in his works. Ambrose ²also, which lived in the year of our LORD. CCClxxx. did write against the favourers of that sect. So like ⟨image 21⟩wise did Fulgentius, which lived ³in the year of our LORD. vC. besides divers other Of these two Novatus & Catarus ensued no small swarms of Heretics, which since that time have maintained this abominable Heresy, and in these our days, the Catabaptistes renewed it