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¶Eusebius. I would to God that thou dyddest thorowly perceyue it. Harken nowe wherin thou arte offensyue vnto the religion of God, and vnto •ll the trew professours and constant maynte•ers of thesame. Fyrst of all, thou causest that the wicked do so boldly speake euyl of so good a thing, in vtteringe innumerable reproches against the same, to thende it may seme the more •dious and hateful vnto al people. Vnderstā deste thou not, that, the more the noumbre are that consente to vntrueth, (although it be but by dissumulation) so muche the greater is hys power? And the more that vntrueth is maynteyned, so much the more is veritie vilipended and oppressed? Furthermore by thys meanes the wicked become more importunate, bloudthersty and cruell, agaynst the trew religiō of God to confound it, and all those that wyl not abandō thesame. And so much the more cruelly do they execute theyr tyranny vpon thē that are constāt, as they se theyr noumbre increased by those that forsake the trueth. These are Tē porisour, no newfound ymaginacions nor yet vayne cogitacions, but the thing of it self is to