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…

Joiada. Thou shalt not do so, my Simon, but now, learn by thine own self what good, doeth come of the anabaptists & what thou hast sucked of them, for thou doest show openly, the fruit, that is to say, desperation, and to trust in thy self, hast thou forgotten, what god hath commanded, in Deuteronomy? saying: ye shall not do every man, y•, which seemeth good unto you, but that, which y• lord hath commanded. So this fantastical & new fangled men, do entangle with them selves, other men, & cast them headlong, into all errors. But ye your selves, are in the fault, being the authors of your one harms, for such deceitful persons, do please you. By & by, as soon as any contentious body, or some new & unaccustomed thing, doeth set forth his head, ye come running by tropes, & neither ⟨image 22⟩warnings nor prayers nor rebukes can avail among you. And when ye be come into y• bottomless pit of misery or mischief ye put the fault in the overseers, which do give you warning before, with great fidelity & troth. Whose admonitions if ye would here, or rather give ears to the word of god preached unto you, & set forth by them, ye might live peaceably, seeing therefore, that ye cast yourselves through your own folly, into such perplexities ye have no cause to impute it, to y• faithful shepherds, which warned you before to beware of such things exhorting you to peace, charity, & con cord, but to your own selves.

Ioiada. Thou shalt not do so, my Symō, but now, learne by thine own self what good, doeth come of the anababtistes & what thou hast sucked of thē, for thou doest shew openly, ye fruite, that is to saie, desperacion, and to trust in thi self, hast thou forgottē, what god hath commaunded, in Deuteronomy? saiyng: ye shal not do euery man, y•, which semeth good vnto you, but that, which y• lord hath commanded. So this phā tasticall & new fangled men, do intangle wt them selues, other men, & cast thē hedlyng, into all errours. But ye your selues, are in the faulte, being the autors of your one harmes, for such deceitful persons, do please you. By & by, as sone as any cōtencious body, or some new & vnaccustomed thing, doeth set forthe his head, ye come rēning by troppes, & neither