[The Pentateuch]

For when they once believed y• they were purged from their since & made righteous through their own holy works / what room was there left for y• righteousness y• is in christs bloudeshedinge? And therefore when they be fallen in to this blindness they can not but hate & persecute the light. And the more clear & evidently their deeds be rebuked y• furiousser & maliciousser blind are they until they break out in to open blasphemy & sinning against y• holy ghost / which is y• malicious persecut•ge of the clear truth so manifestly proved that they can not once hiss against it. As the pharisees persecuted Christ because he rebuked their holy deeds. And when he proved his doctrine with y• scriptu & miracles / yet though they could not improve him nor reason against him they taught y• the scripture must have some other meaning because his interpretation undermined their foundation & plucked up by the roots the sects which they had planted / & they ascribed also his miracles to the devil. And in like ⟨image 241⟩manner though our hypocrites can not d•• nigh but this is the scripture / yet because there can be no nother sense gathered thereof / but that overthroweth their buildings / therefore they ever think that it hath some other meaning than as the words sound and that no man understandeth it or understood it seen the time of the Apostles. Or if they think that some that wrote upon it since the apostles understood it: they yet think that we in like manner as we understand not the text it self / so we understand not the meaning of the words of that doctor. For when thou layest the justifying of holy works and denyest the justifying of faith / how canst thou understand saint Paul / Peter / Johan and the Acts of the apostles or any scripture at all / seeing the justifying of faith is almost all that they intend to prove.

For whē they once beleued y• they were purged frō their synnes & made rightuousse thorowe their awne holye workes / what rowme was there lefte for y rightuousnes y is in christes bloudeshedinge? And therfore whē they be fallen in to this blindnesse they cā not but hate & persecute the light. And the more cleare & evidently their deades be rebuked y furiousser & maliciousser blind are thei vntill they breake out in to opē blasphemye & synnynge agenst y holy gost / which is y malicious persecutge of the clearetrouth so manifestly proued that they cā not once hijsh agenst it. As the pharesyes persecuted Christ because he rebuked their holy deades. And when he proued his doctrine with y scriptu & miracles / yet though they coude not improue him nor reason agenst him they tought y the scripture must haue some other meaninge because his interpretacion vndermyned their fundacion & plucked vpp by the rootes the sectes which they had plāted / & they ascribed also his miracles to the deuell. And in like