A godly and learned exposition or commentary upon the three first chapters of the…A godly and learned exposition or commentarie vpon the three first chapters of the…

and by maintaining ignorance in religion, through which they murder many a simple soul. The seventh, by tolerating of stews, and allowing of incest: for by their law it is lawful for the great uncle to marry his niece, descending from his brother or sister, so it be without the fourth degree, which is against nature. The eight, by making sale of all things, of heaven, hell, of earth, of pardons, & delivering men from purgatory: which is flat robbery, and most gross deceit and cozenage. The ninth they disannul, by falsifying the canon of scripture, for they make that canonical which is no Scripture: and besides in their doctrine practical they defend a lye, for when a man hath confessed his sins to the priest, if the magistrate ask the priest what sins the man confessed, they teach the priest to say, I know not; that is (say they) to tell it to thee: which is a flat lye. And whereas they would defend this by an exposition of Christs words, when he saith: ^(a)The day of judgement is not known to the Son of man: that is (say they) to reveal it unto others, they do but deceive the simple by an exposition which is not fit. The last commandment they disannul, by holding concupiscence before consent to be no sin, when as we know by Gods word, that the first evil motions in us be sins. So that hereby we may see, that Popery is but a false religion, though it have falsely among our common people the name of The old Religion, and therefore we must abhor the same, as ungodly.

and by maintaining ignorance in religion, through which they murder many a simple soule. The seuenth, by tollerating of stewes, and allowing of incest: for by their law it is lawfull for the great vncle to marry his neece, descending from his brother or sister, so it bee without the fourth degree, which is against nature. The eight, by making sale of all things, of heauen, hell, of earth, of pardons, & deliuering men from purgatorie: which is flat robberie, and most grosse deceit and cousenage. The ninth they disanull, by falsifying the canon of scripture, for they make that canonicall which is no Scripture: and besides in their doctrine practicall they defend a lye, for when a man hath confessed his sinnes to the priest, if the magistrat aske the priest what sinnes the man confessed, they teach the priest to say, I know not; that is (say they) to tell it to thee: which is a flat lye. And whereas they would defend this by an exposition of Christs words, when he sayth: ^(a)