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…

Sy. yeas truly: for Christ sayeth: When thou art turned again, comfort or confirm thy brethren.

Sy. yeas truly: for Christ sayeth: Whan thou arte turned agayne, conforte or confirme thy brethren.

Joia. So should the Anabaptists do, if they were sent by God. But seeing that presumptuousness & partinacie hath sent them, and do so bitterly, & with such stubbornness, speak against the gospel, teaching for comfort, desperation: they are such Prophets, as the Lord doth complain ⟨image 94⟩upon, in Ezekiel, which regard nor care nothing for the diseased & wounded sheep, (which thing nevertheless, they had learned of the Lord, which is deservingly called the good & true shepherd. Luc. xxv. or of Paul. ii. Corin. ii.) but dissipate & scatter the Lords flock. For what maketh them, beside a singularity, or singular love of them selves, to separate them selves, from our church, but that (as they do say) we be sinners, that is to say, usurers, publicans & drunkards? I can not, but that I must confess, that there be many enorm sins used among us (which is the more pity) yet we ought not to despair of many, but that they may be brought to repentance. And truly, as for our elves, we are not very ⟨image 95⟩negligent or slothful in rebuking since, crying out still bitterly against them, that commit such things. And yet against the precept of GOD, Math. xiii. and example of the Apostles, which did condemn no man rashly, they do separate them selves from us. But this is the nature of Pharisees.

Ioia. So shoulde the Anababtistes dooe, if they were sent by God. But seeyng that presumptuousnesse & partinacie hath sente them, and do so bytterly, & with suche stubburnesse, speake agaynst the gospell, teachyng for conforte, desperacion: they ar such Prophetes, as the Lorde doth complayne