Look from Adam, and behold the Protestants faith and religion evidently proved out of…Looke from Adam, and behold the Protestants faith and religion evidently proued out of…

All which things, with other moe like fondness, are nothing but new alterations, pervertings, and contrary to all old ordinances, having no ground in Gods word, and are clean against God, though many hardnecked people are yet in a fury and brawl for such things, and will make all the world believe, that this their foolishness, alteration, and perverting of Gods ordinance, is the old faith. And yet wot they, or will not know, that their babbling hath very little ground, and that they (if they considered the matter as it is) are very naked and miserable.

All which things, with other moe like fondnesse, are nothing but new alterations, pervertings, and contrary to all old ordinances, having no ground in Gods word, and are cleane against God, though many hardnecked people are yet in a fury and brawle for such things, and will make all the world beleeve, that this their foolishnesse, alteration, and perverting of Gods ordinance, is the old faith. And yet wote they, or will not know, that their babling hath very little ground, and that they (if they considered the matter as it is) are very naked and miserable.

And though this papistical religion hath endured, prevailed, and triumphed now certain hundred ⟨p. 99⟩years, yet hath God alway sent his faithful servants, and had a little holy flock of his own, like as afore-time in the days of the judges, of the Kings of Judah and Israel, and in the captivity of Babylon, though it was almost at the worst afore, and at the coming of Christ.¹ Like as it is also with us, the nigher the second coming of Christ, the worse it is in the world. Nevertheless (as I said afore) God alway set forth his word, and doth yet. Contrariwise, the Pope with his multitude,² and Mahumet with his (as it seemeth and becometh very Antichrists) have hitherto undertaken to suppress the old religion, and to set up his own ordinance (unknown to our fathers of old time) to bring it into possession, and under the name of God and his holy Church, to spread it upon all Christendom. For out of the acts and statutes of the Pope and his wanton spiritualty, and out of the laws of Mahumet, it is manifest what the one hath taken in hand and done now more than 600. years, and the other upon a 900. years. It is evident yet also even now, whereto his general councils and parliaments do extend. But not regarding how he threateneth and faceth, and how he garnisheth his new and wanton religions with false (but dissembling) titles, boasting of many hundred years, many general Councils, Fathers, holy men, Doctors, Universities, Cloisters, singing, praying, fasting, alms-giving, displying, and telleth such like: All his bragging set aside,