An wholesome antidotus or counter-poison, against the pestilent heresy and sect of the Anabaptists…An holsome antidotus or counter-poysen, agaynst the pestylent heresye and secte of the Anabaptistes…

skins, or some led, to cover ⟨image 8⟩this spiritual temple, and to keep, the rain, and foul weather, from that gorgeous and goodly ornaments, that other men, according to their rich, & pregnant wits have abundantly offered. It is so, that otherwhiles, for lack of good coverture, many fair, & goodly places, well & gorgeously trim med within, and decked pleasantly, with gold, assure, and precious stones, do fall in short space, in to great decay, by reason of the rain y• falleth in. Likewise if a remedy, be not provided, that the church of god, and celestial Jerusalem (which is now almost builded up again, and through reparated, by our godly Nehemiah) may be fenced, against y• tempestuous heresy of the Anabaptists (which, ⟨image 9⟩where soever the truth doth spring, and beginneth to come a broad, do break in, infecting the minds, of the rude and simple people, with pernicious & detestable opinions) surely thereof, as afore of the doctrine of the papists great conuenientes must needs follow. Many towns & cities, in Germany and in the Sussynres land, where, the word of god did flourish goodly afore, ware clean subverted by this abominable sect. of the Catababtistys (for they ware called Anabaptists, because that they ware authors of rebaptization, or baptizing again, and Catabaptistys, because, that they did speak and hold opinion, against the baptism of children) in so much, that they had almost extinguished the gospel there ⟨image 9⟩as it is more evidently showed, in the works of certain famous clerks of Germany & Helvetia Which incommodity and hurt, that it may not chance hereafter, in this illustre & victorius realm of England: I have according to my small learning, enterprised, to translate out of latin, in to english a little treaty, that the famous clerk Henry Bullinger, hath afore written in the Germanish tongue, and after, was translated into latin by Leo Inde, bishop of Tigure against the pestiferous venom of the Anabaptists. Wherein the false and pernicious opinions of these antichrists, are so clerkly both by scriptures, and also good learning, confuted▪ that it is impossible, where such ⟨image 10⟩