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. Show therefore, that the truth, must be tried, by the scriptures, & not rather with a free spirit, without scriptures.

Sy. Shew therfore, yt the truthe, muste be tryed, by the scriptures, & not rather wt a fre spirit, without scriptures.

Jo. By thy words, do ⟨image 38⟩I perceive, what thing doeth beguile you, that is, that ye do sever these .ii. things, being united & invisibly knitted together, that is to say, the spirit & the scriptures, which can nor ought to be separated asunder, the one from the other. For when we name the scriptures, we do understand the expressed word of that spirit. For as the voice, or sound of the word, can in no wise be separated, from the lively breath of the living creature So the scriptures can not be divided from the spirit that inspireth them for the scripture, is the expressed will of god, but now will I bring the testimonies & places with thou requirest, our lord Jesus Christ, unto whom the heavenly father, did give witness from heaven, & who hath received the holy ghost, after no measure, did not despise the scriptures, in so much that he did ⟨image 39⟩corroborate all his sayings, by them only, and did command that the Jews should try both his words and facts, by the scriptures. John. v. and Luke xvi. He biddeth them to lift up their eyes to Moses & the prophets, and not to apparent spirits. He reproving also the Sadducees, did show that this was the cause of their error, be cause that they were ignorant in scriptures, or neglected them Mark .xii. The Apostles (as we may understand by the book of the Acts) did receive abundantly in the beginning, the holy ghost & that by a certain visible token. And yet not withstanding, did they not therefore forsake or contemn the scriptures, nor boast their spirit against them. But rather did prove & strengthen all their