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It is all true you here allege of the Anabaptists: God be praised / there is nothing of it / true in us. If through these questions moved / the church be disquieted / the disquietness riseth in that the truth and sincerity which is offered / is not received. We seek it in no tumultuous manner / but by humble suit unto them / to whom the redress of things pertain / and by teaching as our callings will suffer. If all those are to be counted in the way to Anabaptism / which move controversies when the gospel is preached: Then those that taught that the Gentiles were to be preached unto / when as the most of the believing Jews (which ¹likewise preached the gospel) thought otherwise / are to be counted in the way to Anabaptism. Likewise / those that preached that circumcision was not necessary unto salvation / when as a great number of Christians at the first / thought it necessary. Then master Zuinglius & Oecolampadius smelled of Anabaptism / which went about to overthrow diverse things / which master Luther held. I could go further with this / but I content my self with these examples. If any be brought in doubt / or hatred of the truth hereby / or any man take occasion to be contentious / it is not in the nature of the doctrine which is taught / but in the corruption of their minds / nor it is not offence given / but taken: nor this doctrine can be no more charged / then the rest of the gospel / which is a * sword / ²that cutteth a city / or kingdom in sunder / and setteth a * fire where there was none / and putteth contention between the father and the son. But what is to give an incurable offence unto the simple / and matter to the enemy to rejoice in / to all good Christians of tears and weeping / if this be not: to make the world think / that numbers of those which profess the gospel / are infected