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. I have said y•, which I do think yet, y• there was never a more troublous world, who so ever are the authors of it.

Sy. I haue said y•, which I do thīke yet, y• ther was neuer a more troblous world, who so euer ar ye autors of it.

Jo. wilt thou know what the matter is? this thing do ⟨image 23⟩stir up sedition and timulltie, y• ye do make every rascal knave minister of gods word, and that without any discretion. Beside this, thou showest thyself utterly ignorant in histories, and unexpert of worldly things, which doest scarcely know, the acts of one age, nor doest not consider farther, than is at hand. If thou haddest read the holly gospels & acts of the Apostles, thou shouldest have found grevouser dissentions, which did rise of the sermons of Christ and of his apostles. Finally that histories are full of tumults, which did spring in times paste, of the false opinions of Marcion, Valentinus, Arrius, Nestorius Enriches, Donatus, Pelagius, and other heretics. There were great tumults and ⟨image 23⟩rebellions, not only of cities & towns, but also of whole realms, which were so great, that ours ought not to be compared with them. Did not both christ himself, and his apostles give warning before, that sects, should arise? Not because, that for them we should be amazed, or despair utterly, but because, that we should the more diligently watch against such pestiferous sects not only to avoid and shun them, but to resist also. Paul doeth apertely say, Corin. ii. that sects must be, that they which are faithful, may be known. For even as a sieve doeth not life the corn, but cleanseth from chaff and darnel, so the wheat of faithful men, doeth not perish by false doctrines, but is tried, the dust and chaff